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Those who advocate violent or disturbing emotional experiences fail to consider that pleasures mediated through the mind are more long-lasting, less likely to have painful consequences and "deeper" in the sense of staying with one positively throughout a longer span of life. [8] But then what happens when great music becomes part of society's expectations? A concert can become a place to be seen. Certain music becomes integrated with the story of wealth and success in people's minds and attending a concert may become a symbol of such success. The empty desire for status can get in the way of the natural desire to enjoy the music. The whole experience can become what the Epicureans would call a "disturbance of the soul," in which anxiety replaces contentment. Clearly this does not always happen to concert-goers. But the Epicurean point is that the more the empty desire of social expectations dominates the experience, the less sheer enjoyment the music will provide. Our consciousness may be divided between the natural desire to enjoy the music and the empty desire of proving our status by showing that, after all, we do appreciate great music. Meanwhile, we may in fact hardly hear the music in other than the most superficial way. We have lost a chance to experience one of the deepest and most long-lasting pleasures in life. To an Epicurean, for whom life is far too short and there is no afterlife, wasting time at that concert trapped by empty desires is a personal tragedy. Another type of empty desire common to aesthetic experience is the desire to figure out what we are supposed to feel from music. This is empty not because it is endless, but because it intellectualizes the experience too much, becoming a filter that blocks the pleasure of the music. One learns to associate certain music with certain emotions, possibly because of previous listening experiences or because of what society tells us to expect. Listen to a piece of music enough and emotional ruts start to form. Be too concerned about what the artistic elite is saying about a piece of music and the mind can channel the musical experience into a personal test case of one's aesthetic skills. From an Epicurean standpoint, we need to eliminate from consciousness beliefs or expectations that filter or distort the pleasure of the music.
We have a bit of a chill to the air. Low humidity, that's the case through today and tomorrow. It starts to slightly rise Monday and Tuesday before humidity makes more of a return as we move into the middle to late portion of the workweek. Temperaturewise, couldn't ask for anything better. Mid to upper 70's. A very comfortable air mass. Wind out of the northwest likely shifting to the east today bringing a little bit of a sea breeze onto our coastline where Boston topping out at the low to mid 70's mark. Lows tonight again falling into the 50's and then a cool evening in store for us. You have 40's as you move inland. Orange about 46 degrees. High pressure in place. We're staying quiet for the next couple of days. The next system we're watching well off into the midwest. That's not moving through until the late portion of the week. And that's why it is going to stay nice dry, cool and sunny. A little taste of fall as we head into the forecast again for tomorrow. Here's our 12-hour forecast as we break it down. Should see afternoon clouds but nothing that completely blocks that beautiful sunshine as temperatures top out in the 70's. We're going to see a little rise in temperatures toward the end of the week and chance of showers by Friday. Doug and rhondella? Rhondella: Thank you, Kelly Ann. In your health, more than a million Americans are living with type 1 diabetes. Their bodies don't produce insulin, something we all need to survive. Doug: As our Emily Riemer shows us, promising research suggests a treatment that could be the answer these patients are looking for. Reporter: The modern lab is focused on a generic vaccine with powerful potential. B.C.G. Is the most common vaccine administered to newborns in the world for the last hundred years to try to prevent tuberculosis. Reporter: The B.C.G. Vaccine is not generally recommended for children in the U.S. Because of the low risk for T.B. Infection here. Yet, B.C.G. Could be the key for people with type 1 diabetes. B.C.G., the yellow particles scene here, can kill bad white blood cells before those cells attack the insulin-releasing cells in the pancreas. Research shows the B.C.G. Vaccines helps the body produce a hormone people with type 1 diabetes need more of. Those elevated levels do two good things.
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Limited Edition CD + Digital Download Invisible Polytechnic Analogue modular synth 'pulse', organ, piano, marimba, percussion, violin, viola, hurdy-gurdy, harp, bass guitar, oboe, daegeum, bassoon, voices 45' 40" 115 Recorded at Hatchlands Park, Surrey, and Them Usem, London Junior Aspirin Records (ASP020, 2011) Anton Glushkin and friends Piano 'pulse', guitar, electric guitar, 2 violins, viola, cello, balalayka, balalayka-contrabass, flute, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, bayan, harp, harpsichord, synthesizer, percussion 51' 110 Recorded live on March 17, 2012, at museum of contemporary arts "Erarta", St. Petersburg, Russia Hands For Friends studio Sensorium Saxophone Orchestra Saxophones, snare drum Recorded December 2010, Brooklyn, New York Living Records (2012) University of Lethbridge Electroacoustic Ensemble clarinet, alto saxophones, voices, electronic bells, DTX electronic drums, MIDI sequencer, CDJ-2000 turntable, iPad, piano, Minimoog Voyager, microKorg XL, keyboards, acoustic guitars, electric guitar, bass guitar (Ableton Suite and Logic Pro controlled by iPad and keyboards) 41'13" 96 Lethbridge, Canada, April 2013 Digital Audio Arts University of Lethbridge PressingPlay laptop Orchestra Ableton Live 8, APC40, Kore 2 23'52" 128 June 2013 Recorded live at PlonkPlonk Records in June 2013 Adrian Utley's Guitar Orchestra Electric Guitars, Organs, Bass Clarinet, Percussion 61'24" Recorded live at St. George's hall, Bristol, 6 February 2013 Released by Invada Records on 14 October 2013 Haanwijk Guitaret Ensemble 21 Hohner Guitarets 19'47" Released April 2014 Africa Express balafons, baritone-guitar, calabash, djembe, flutes, guitars, imzad, kalimbas, kamel n'goni, koras, melodica, percussions, violin, vocals 40'45" 130 Recorded at Maison des Jeunes, Bamako and Studio P5, Berlin Released February 2015 Fighting Windmills + Sethstat clarinet, soprano saxophone, trombone, percussion, electronic percussion, analogue synthesizer, modeling synthesizer, electric guitar, electronics, bass guitar, contrabass 78'41" (variable) Performed without pulse in a varying, free-flowing tempo. Recorded live at Kino Frosina, MKC – Skopje, Macedonia, December 16th 2016. Released by PMG Jazz on July 5th 2018 dBs Music Synthesizer Orchestra 53'50 85 Recorded at dBs Bristol Performed December 2018 [10]
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9 Clarence M. Kelley, Kelley: The Story of an FBI Director (Kansas City, MO: Andrews, McMeel, and Parker, 1987), 268, quoted in Scott, The War Conspiracy (2008), 389. 10 Scott, Deep Politics, 275; Scott, Deep Politics II, 80, 129n; HSCA Critics Conference of 17 September 1977, 181, link. Stringfellow worked under Jack Revill in the Vice Squad of the DPD Special Services Bureau. As such he reported regularly to the FBI on such close Jack Ruby associates as James Herbert Dolan, a “known hoodlum and strong-arm man” on the FBI’s Top Criminal list for Dallas (Robert M. Barrett, FBI Report of February 2, 1963, NARA#124-90038-10026, 12 [Stringfellow]; cf. NARA#124-10212-10012, 4 [hoodlum], NARA#124-10195-10305, 9 [Top Criminal]). Cf. 14 WH 601-02 Ruby and Dolan]. Robert Barrett, who received Stringfellow’s reports to the FBI, had Ruby’s friend Dolan under close surveillance; he also took part in Oswald’s arrest at the Texas Theater, and claimed to have seen DPD Officer Westbrook with Oswald’s wallet at the site of the Tippit killing [Dale K. Myers, With Malice: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Murder of Officer J.D. Tippit (Milford, MI: Oak Cliff Press, 1998), 287-90]). 11 It was sent for information to Washington, which received it three days later (Scott, Deep Politics, 275; Scott, Deep Politics II, 80, 129n; Scott, War Conspiracy, 382). 12 Warren Commission Exhibit 1778, 23 WH 383. (Marina’s actual words, before mistranslation, were quite innocuous: “I cannot describe it [the gun] because a rifle to me like all rifles” (Warren Commission Exhibit 1778, 23 WH 383; discussion in Scott, Deep Politics, 168-72). 13 Stringfellow himself was the source of one other piece of false intelligence on November 22: that Oswald had confessed to the murders of both the president and Officer Tippit (Dallas FBI File DL 89-43-2381C; Paul L. Hoch, “The Final Investigation? The HSCA and Army Intelligence,” The Third Decade, 1, 5 [July 1985], 3), 14 9 WH 106; Scott, Deep Politics, 275-76; Russ Baker, Family of Secrets, 119-22. 15 Rodney P. Carlisle and Dominic J. Monetta, Brandy: Our Man in Acapulco (Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 1999), 128. 16 Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Courses of Action Related to Cuba (Case II),” Report of the J-5 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 1 May 1963, NARA #202-10002-10018, 12. Cf. pp.
You can also reset the timecode to 00:00:00:00 using reset, or you can set the timecode to the current camera time using the HH:MM:SS fields. The third option is Movie Rec. Count with the options of Rec. Time and Time Code. In Rec. Time, the elapsed time after the start of movie shooting will be displayed on the rear LCD panel as the movie is being recorded. With Time Code, the timecode will be displayed while the movie is recorded. The final option is ‘Movie play count'. The two options within this setting are Play Time and Time Code and they determine what is displayed while the movie is played back on the camera. In Play Time, the elapsed time after the start of shooting will be shown on the rear LCD panel during playback. With the Time Code setting, the associated timecode will be shown during playback.
“When I first got here, I didn't know what to do,” recalls Ali Saleh Jibraail, 36, who ran a falafel shop in Damascus’ Midan district, scene of heavy fighting in 2012. Times reporter Nabih Bulos visits Saleh Jibraail at the falafel stand. Much of Midan, including Jibraail’s falafel stand, was destroyed. Jibraail and many residents fled south to Jordan. “I realized there was a demand here, so I decided to do what I knew to do best: falafel,” says Jibraail. Now he is known as Abu Abdullah, and his shop, open seven days a week, is a favored hangout for both residents and camp staff, including international aid workers and Jordanian police officers. He’s known throughout the camp for his version of falafel. With proceeds from his bustling food stand, Jibraail could have arranged for his family — two wives, two daughters, four sons — to make the journey to Europe. But he thought the trek too hazardous. Besides, he says, life here is not so intolerable. “The main problem here is that there’s not enough work for people, not enough to do,” Jibraail says. “I employ as many as I can, but most people have nothing to do, even if their basic needs are taken care of.” He escorts a pair of visitors to his modular home, a block away. He has replaced the drab white front with a multi-hued facade suggesting a substantial, if rustic, Syrian abode. Inside, he is building a fountain of blue tile, like the ones that tinkle in the courtyards of Syrian villas.
IF you believe Australia’s Climate Commissioner, Tim Flannery, it is getting hotter and hotter in Western Sydney. [1] But scientist Basil Beamish noticed that in the Climate Commission report they only show the trend of the number of hot days from 1970-2011. There is data for Sydney, measured at Observatory Hill, back to 1890. … Dr Beamish noticed that if you use all of the hot days data back to 1890 it is clear there is a different long-term pattern in play (see blue line in chart). In fact the year with the greatest number of hot days for Sydney is 1926 (12 days) and this has not been beaten since. But instead of reporting on the long term trend for Sydney as measured at Observatory Hill from 1890, Professor Flannery has chosen to just focus on Western Sydney and in particular use only the data for Parramatta North (see orange line in chart). This data set begins in 1970, which was a low point in the hot days cycle. By choosing Parramatta and beginning in 1970, Professor Flannery can make the upward trend in hot days look dramatic. Parramatta is further inland than the Observatory Hill site and so the summers are warmer and the winter’s colder. But if there were data for Parramatta back to 1890 it would almost certainly show the same pattern as Observatory Hill. Indeed it was almost certainly hotter in Parramatta, in Western Sydney, in 1926 than anytime since. Once again the observational data does not support the nonsense claims made by Australia’s Climate Commissioner, Professor Flannery. ****** Basil Beamish provided the chart and many of the words. Thank you. 1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-14/heatwaves-bushfires-predicted-to-hammer-nsw/4009006 ========================================================= UPDATE: WUWT reader Dale Stiller writes “The very funny, veteran Aussie cartoonist Pickering has drawn a classic about Flim Flan’s utterances.”
So we are not dealing with three drafts for the final version of Capital, but rather with two different projects: the plan followed between 1857 and 1863 for a six-book Critique of Political Economy, and after 1863, the four-book work on Capital (three “theoretical” volumes and one on the history of theory). The Grundrisse and the Manuscript of 1861–1863 are the two drafts for the book on capital from the original six-book Critique of Political Economy, whereas the Manuscript of 1863–1865 is the first draft for the three theoretical volumes of the four-book Capital. If we consider the Manuscript of 1863–1865, then it becomes clear not only that the concept of “capital in general” is missing, but also that the structure of presentation does not anymore correspond to the opposition between capital in general and competition. Instead, a central role is played by the relationship between individual capital and the total social capital, which is dealt with at the different levels of abstraction of the process of production, the process of circulation, and the process of capitalist production as a whole. The strict separation of the presentation of capital, wage-labor, and landed property could also no longer be maintained: in the newly conceptualized Capital, one finds theoretically fundamental sections of the previously planned books on landed property and wage-labor. All that remains are the special studies mentioned in the text. So overall, Capital corresponds to the material of the first three books of the earlier six-book plan, but within an altered theoretical framework. The planned presentation of the history of theory had also been altered: a history of economic theory in its entirety replaces the history of individual categories intended for the old book on capital. Here as well, the originally planned separation cannot be maintained.
"Consumers will be able to purchase organic dairy products with confidence, knowing that regardless of the label, the animals who produced the milk were on pasture, as nature intended," Engelbert added.The USDA has announced that they will begin this month hosting a series of workshops around the country with the nation's 50+ organic certification agencies and other industry stakeholders. The sessions are intended to clearly define the meaning and intent of the new rule so that certifiers, who conduct annual farm inspections and review organic system management plans, will understand what the regulations require from farmers and only approve management practices that strictly conform to it.Specifically, the new rules require that dairy cows and other ruminants be out on pasture for the entire growing season, but for not less than 120 days. It also requires that the animals receive at least 30% of their feed, or dry matter intake (DMI), from pasturing. In addition, organic livestock will be required to have access to the outdoors year-round with the exception of temporary confinement due to mitigating and documentable environmental or health considerations. "These minimum benchmarks will assure consumers that industrial-scale dairies don't just create the 'illusion' of grazing and continue producing illegitimate organic milk," said Kastel. He continued by emphasizing to consumers that, "Based on Cornucopia's research 90% of all namebrand dairy products are produced with high-integrity- the handful of factory farms are bad aberrations and will now be dealt with. "The 120-day/30% DMI benchmarks were negotiated reference points agreed-upon by organic community stakeholders and arrived at after a series of meetings and discussions, nationwide, over much of the last half dozen years. The rules were also a carefully crafted consensus aimed at ensuring that legitimate organic dairy operations could truly provide meaningful pasture for their herds across the wide range of climatic zones in the U.S. It is estimated that the rule will impact upwards of 2000 organic dairy farmers.Cornucopia, a farm policy research group, along with agricultural producers and other organizations, are carefully scrutinizing other impacts on the most sweeping rewrite of the federal organic standards since their inception in 2002. In addition to dairy cattle, the standards will assure humane animal husbandry practices in eggs, poultry, beef and pork production.
But if they have a certain idea of what sort of people they want in then they’re sending a clear message, and they’ve been sending it for a while,” he says.For anyone who feels unwelcome under the Dome’s new policies, Tolliver suggests they take their business elsewhere.“I think it’s important that people understand that if you’re being disrespected by an organization or a company, you should exercise your right to just not go.”
Visiting today's Star Tours building from Tomorrowland's entrance, it's not difficult remembering Adventure thru Inner Space. The two sculptured murals that greet guests at the entrance of Tomorrowland are no longer reflective, but they still have the images of atoms. Inside the building, the curving walkway leading into the attraction loading area is identical. In the same location where the giant, electronic snowflake was, we now see the "Moon of Endor" travel film. And in the exact position were the "Mighty Microscope" was located, now stands a "Star Speeder 3000" vehicle. Further in the "Droidnostics Center" area of the Star Tours queue, one of the droids, officially known as R4-M9, works on one of the 8 display pods that were once in the Monsanto queue, now redressed as a control panel. In the same room, a miniature Atomobile pod passed overhead mixed in within the baskets of robot space junk but has been removed since. In the film that is part of the ride portion of Star Tours, sentimental homage is paid to Adventure thru Inner Space as an 18-inch model of the "Mighty Microscope" is seen in the lower right of the screen just as the runaway craft swings out of the hangar bay and plunges into space. Ice comets encountered on the way to the "Moon of Endor" were loosely inspired by the dancing inner space snowflakes. The two tile murals outside the Tomorrowland buildings remained. The mural on the Inner Space building was covered with a new Star Tours painting but the tiles remain underneath. The mural across the street, on the America the Beautiful building, remained intact until the opening of the new Tomorrowland in May of 1988. In its place, a new painting depicts all extinct Tomorrowland attractions. As a last farewell, the new painting depicts a line of Atomobiles going into a microscope. "This is Monsanto" Author: I've compiled this information from every source I could find and from my own recollections. If there is any information that needs to be corrected or expanded, feel free to e-mail me at [email protected]
It was the year 1829 when Americans were getting used to their newly elected president, Andrew Jackson, that David G. Yuengling, an immigrant from Wurtemburg, Germany, settled in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, and started a brewery. Originally named The Eagle Brewery, today the Yuengling Brewery is still identified with the qualities of strength and pride, symbolic of the American eagle. Each Yuengling label still bears the eagle trademark chosen by young David Yuengling so long ago. Previously located on North Centre Street, current site of Pottsville's City Hall, the brewery was completely destroyed by fire after only two years of operation. A new brewery was then constructed on Mahantongo Street, where operations continue today. David Yuengling's eldest son, David, Jr., eventually left Pottsville to establish a second brewery on the James River in Richmond, Virginia, appropriately naming it the James River Steam Brewery. In 1873, when David Yuengling's second son, Frederick, joined his father as a partner in the original operation, the brewery name was changed to D.G. Yuengling and Son. In the early days, malt from Philadelphia was transported more than 100 miles to Pottsville by way of the Schuylkill Canal. The final brew was then delivered throughout the region by horse-drawn wagons. Following the death of Frederick Yuengling in 1899, his only son, Frank, took the helm. He managed the business until 1963, a remarkable period of sixty-four years. During the late 1800's, two additional breweries were opened in New York, in Saratoga and New York City, and a fifth brewery was eventually opened in Trail, British Columbia. Over the course oftime, all of these breweries were consolidated into the original Pottsville operation because of its continued growth and promise. The Prohibition Era
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public class MassUserRegistrationTest { //Class to be tested private MassUserRegistration massUserRegistration; //Dependencies (will be mocked) private UserRepository userRepository; private EventRecorder eventRecorder; //Test data private List< Customer > sampleCustomers; @Before public void setup (){ sampleCustomers = new ArrayList<> (); eventRecorder = mock( EventRecorder . class); userRepository = mock( UserRepository . class); when(userRepository . saveCustomer(anyString(), anyString())) . thenAnswer( new Answer< Customer > () { public Customer answer ( InvocationOnMock invocation ) throws Throwable { String firstName = invocation . getArgument( 0 ); String lastName = invocation . getArgument( 1 ); Customer newCustomer = new Customer (firstName, lastName); newCustomer . setFullName(firstName + " " + lastName); newCustomer . setSince( LocalDate . now()); return newCustomer; } }); massUserRegistration = new MassUserRegistration (eventRecorder,userRepository); } @Test public void registerTwentyAccounts (){ sampleCustomers . add( new Customer ( " Susan " , " Ivanova " )); sampleCustomers . add( new Customer ( " Lyta " , " Alexander " )); sampleCustomers . add( new Customer ( " Vir " , " Cotto " )); sampleCustomers . add( new Customer ( " Stephen " , " Frankling " )); //[...20 customers redacted for brevity...] massUserRegistration . massRegister(sampleCustomers); ArgumentCaptor< Event > myCaptor = ArgumentCaptor . forClass( Event . class); verify(eventRecorder, times(sampleCustomers . size())) . recordEvent(myCaptor . capture()); List< Event > eventsThatWereSent = myCaptor . getAllValues(); assertEquals(sampleCustomers . size(),eventsThatWereSent . size()); for ( int i = 0 ;i < eventsThatWereSent . size();i ++ ){ Event event = eventsThatWereSent . get(i); assertNotNull(event . getTimestamp()); assertEquals( Event . Type . REGISTRATION , event . getType()); assertEquals(sampleCustomers . get(i) . getFirstName() + " " + sampleCustomers . get(i) . getLastName(),event . getCustomerName()); } } }
“And I think the organizational structure of the agency is well-designed, well-structured, and it works. And I don’t see any reason to change it.” “We could have, I think easily would have, seen that conversion [of NASA centers to FFRDCs] occur a few years back had there been just a little more time,” O’Keefe said. One recent time that the idea of converting NASA centers into FFRDCs came up was in 2004 by the President’s Commission on the Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy, or more commonly known as the Aldridge Commission after its chairman, Pete Aldridge. Its final report recommended a restructuring of NASA that would convert many of its centers into FFRDCs. “FFRDCs provide a tested, proven management structure in which many of the federal government’s most successful and innovative research, laboratory, technical support, and engineering institutions thrive,” the report concluded. “The value of FFRDCs is rooted in their technical competence, flexibility, independence, and objectivity in support of a given federal agency’s technical projects.” It did recommend that centers involved with “specific governmental functions” like launch and flight operations not be transitioned into FFRDCs. The NASA administrator at the time of the Aldridge Commission report, Sean O’Keefe, told the NRC committee he was open to that concept. “How do you rationalize ten different centers around the country?” he asked, suggesting that FFRDCs was one idea he pursued during his tenure and still worth consideration today. “I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much enthusiasm there was for that [FFRDC approach] within the centers as well as within some of the universities” that might be asked to manage them. “We could have, I think easily would have, seen that conversion occur a few years back had there been just a little more time.” That was an apparent allusion to O’Keefe’s departure from NASA at the end of 2004 to become chancellor of Louisiana State University. He was replaced by Mike Griffin, who showed no particular interest in FFRDCs. O’Keefe said that the FFRDC conversion plan “became almost a victim of transitions.” Even though who didn’t embrace the FFRDC concept acknowledged that NASA today has infrastructure that includes some relics of past programs no longer needed. “I would be less than honest if I told you we need everything we have,” Bolden admitted. “We don’t.
The Sun, Moon, Uranus and Pluto - We start out and its immediate, in your face Astro. This is the Champion Astro to a T. Welcome back! Saturn is here too, complicating your big, world-shaking dreams and ideals by raising real-world concerns. This is a good thing, no matter how much it feels like everything is crashing down. Scale back, adjust, and roll with it. Chiron helps here, advising that the only way out of this situation is to make your own way and use unconventional tactics. Weigh the benefits of taking decisive action and crossing the line. Pallas Athene tells you that whatever you do, be prepared to change your plan at a moment’s notice. Everything is way too crazy to nail yourself down- You have no idea where you’ll be TOMMOROW, let alone anywhere in the future. Try not to stress about it. Lilith shows that this is not the easiest task for you- you’ve been craving some kind of stability since 2010, I know; TOUGH- This IS the closest you come to stable. In chaos we trust, guys. Vesta assists here, reminding you that at the moment the only true stability you can find IS THE STABILITY YOU HAVE WITHIN, and that’s only if you MAKE it happen. Good thing you’ve been making time for your meditation regimen and realizing that all this is just so much bullshit, right? Otherwise you’d really be in trouble! Hebe confirms this, reminding you that you need to serve yourself first, and anyone else second. You are no slave. Echeclus pulls on the strings that hold you together, and with all that’s going on in Scorpio you may be reminded of something long passed that you have forgotten or repressed, and that MUST be recognized, healed and integrated into your consciousness or else you’ll end up gibbering and hiding in the corner. Don’t end up in the Asylum, it doesn’t typically end well and they play crappy French songs on repeat ad nauseam. Not awesome. Nemesis will stalk you, and if there is anything from your past that she can use to bring you down here in the present, she will not hesitate to do so. Kassandra confirms this, and says that you may not even see it coming, and that whatever it may be is assumed to be long since dead and buried.
– Narcissistic people usually have weird sexual hangups or addictions and rarely are they faithful. They have secret crushes, affairs, use pornography, have “Cyber” affairs, and generally are always on the prowl for the rush of new love. They are known for going after married people because it is a bigger ego boost to take someone away from their partner. They will entice their new victim with professions of undying and unconditional love and once they leave their husband or wife will discard them without a backwards glance with no thought to how they just destroyed a family. He will create his fantasy self on the internet and wants every woman to want and love him, whether they can truly ever be together is of little consequence to him, he lives in a fantasy world anyway. He gets the ultimate Narcissistic supply if he can get another man’s wife or girlfriend. JC bragged to me one time about how before he met me he had been outside washing his car when a pretty woman walked past taking her kids to school. When she was walking home he started up a conversation with her and before school let out he had her in bed. She was married and when her husband found out he came over to my ex’s. My ex beat him up and then charged him with assault and the guy was put in jail. My ex and this woman partied and screwed the whole time her husband was in jail. As soon as the guy got out of jail he would go to my ex’s looking for his wife. My ex would beat him up and then charge the guy with assault. He was laughing and was surprised when I thought it was disgusting and not the least bit funny. He had told me how devastated he had been when he found out a girl he loved was with another man and I reminded him of that, I thought he understood, but he’s been with a married woman just recently so obviously not!
KALYANI: The West Bengal government has taken up an ambitious project to develop a city , based on theme of ' Analytics ', adjacent to Kalyani township in Nadia district in association with the Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCC&I).Drawing an investment of Rs 3,000 crore, "Samriddhi- City of Analytics' would come up in about three years on 52 acres, offered by the state government to develop this city, state Urban Development Principal Secretary Debashis Sen said.This is one of the six modern city projects cleared by the state cabinet earlier this month.After inspecting the project site today, Sen said, "The city can be expanded to 250 acres if it gets enough response. In that case the projct would draw an investment of about Rs 6,000 crore and take about six years to complete. "The concept of this city of analytics was launched at the 'Business Analytics Innovation Summit @ Bengal', organised by the BCC&I in December last year in Kolkata.Later, the BCC&I passed this idea to the state government, which immediately accepted it and decided to give it a shape, BCC&I president designate Ambarish Dasgupta said.City planner Dulal Mukherjee prepared a detailed plan layout of the project.Sen said the state government would soon come out with an advertisement welcoming Request For Information (RFI) from those who will participate in the tender process.After finalising this process, the state government will proceed for bidding of land through e-auction, Sen said.A consortium may also come up to develop the 52 acres of the proposed city by Kalyani Expressway, he added.Speaking on the occasion, Technical Education and Training Minister Ujjal Biswas said the project could leverage the advantage of intellectual manpower coming from the state's premier higher education institutions like IIT, ISI, IIEST, JU and IIM.Immediate past President of the BCC&I Kallol Dutta described the proposed project as 'niche city' which would mean promoting a select skill-set like analytics, just as Silicon Valley in the USA is known to be the home of technology companies and start-ups.
Preparing an educated, healthy and skilled workforce – with access to sexual and reproductive health, alternatives to early marriage and childbearing, and to training and decent jobs – can enable shifts from high to low-fertility, to smaller families with fewer dependents, increased spending per child, and overall savings and investment. The result is a ‘ demographic dividend ’, credited with having accelerated economic growth and poverty reduction in countries across several regions. Ensuring opportunities for young people can also help reverse the brain drain from migration observed in many developing countries. Even in countries more concerned with ageing populations , investing in the current and future workforce can help bolster pension systems that provide for older generations .
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When he was 27, he saw a therapist for the first time. More recently, he’s been working with a therapist on a form of treatment called Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing (commonly referred to as EMDR) to work through his trauma. “It can be visual or aural or tactile; sometimes you’ll hold things that buzz in your hand back and forth in a rhythm, while your therapist leads you through a series of thoughts surrounding an issue,” he explains. “It helps you decouple feelings from these memories and sort of remaps your neural pathways.” The assault fueled much of the anger that has guided Leo’s life, but more importantly, it also fueled the empathy that has made his work compelling and made him one of the most beloved songwriters of the past 20 years. There were bigger names to emerge from the indie rock boom of the early ’00s, but there were few who created quite such an intense bond with their audience. Like fellow Jersey Boy Springsteen (whom Leo has covered on more than one occasion but has never met), Leo created a sense that no matter who you were or how downtrodden, discounted, or marginalized you felt, Ted Leo had your fucking back. He’s been there, and he knows how it feels. That feeling has reached its apotheosis with “You’re Like Me,” the first time he’s ever directly confronted his sexual assault. That song, one of the highlights of The Hanged Man, is to a degree about his audience and why he’s devoted his life to what he does. But on a deeper level, “It’s [about] being someone who has your world turned around in a way that places you outside the sort of normal flow of life and events,” he says. “It’s [about] acknowledging those people as well.” *** Leo found Notre Dame suffocating and entirely too Catholic. “I needed help, and I got rejection,” he says. “I went through the Catholic school chute. I went to Catholic school my whole life, and by the time it was time for me to go to college, I was going to a Catholic college; that’s just how it went,” he says. “I think I always had it in my mind that I would maybe sort of stay in academia. I imagined maybe I would go back and teach high school English, for example.
Stealing the show at the 2013 Nike Hoop Summit, Livio Jean-Charles did more to help himself over the course of the week than any player in attendance, leading to his declaration for the 2013 NBA Draft. The French forward had already generated some buzz among NBA scouts with his consistent play in practice, but exploded for 27 points and 13 rebounds against the USA Junior National Select Team on game day. Both of those totals rank in the top-7 in the 16-year history of the event.Jean-Charles began the week doing the same things that ultimately led to his historic performance in the game; moving well without the ball, running the floor tirelessly, finishing at the rim, and making the most of his athleticism and 7'2 wingspan by playing with great intensity on both ends of the floor. Standing out in practice with his ability to do a lot of the little things NBA scouts look for in a combo forward, Jean-Charles showed promising potential as a roleplayer.Earning a spot in the starting lineup for Roy Rana's World Select Team after sitting out briefly with an injury earlier in the week, Jean-Charles did most of his damage on the offensive end by crashing the glass and as the screen setter on the pick and roll. Finishing the game shooting 10-13 from the field and 7-10 from the line, Jean-Charles played within himself while displaying good touch and patience around the rim.Defensively, Jean-Charles did a terrific job containing dribble penetration and challenging shots around the rim. Not a freak athlete, the 19-year old has good speed, and combined with his length and motor, showed the ability to defend both forward positions. Blocking a couple of dunks over the course of the week and a few on game day, Jean-Charles is a smart defender who could become an even more versatile on that end of the floor as his frame improves.Moving forward, there are three areas of his game that will dictate what kind of player Jean-Charles can be down the road and likely define his NBA position: his physical strength, range on his jumper, and ball-handling ability. Possessing passable size for a power forward and very good length, Jean-Charles has gained some weight in recent years, but at 217 pounds, will need to continue getting stronger to better defend the post at the NBA level.
“I cannot officially say.” I felt as if I had stepped into a Cold War spy movie. Eventually, I asked about the existence of a secret tunnel at the 65th Kilometre. “It’s one of the special places,” Jurek said, guardedly. “Because there are so many tunnels, who knows what else is there.” Jurek insisted that the tunnel at the 65th Kilometre was just a point of entry into a labyrinthine complex that may hold many Nazi treasures. He paused for a moment to let this possibility sink in, and then added, “It’s the tip of an underground city.” [cartoon id="a19990"]
The worst part about the hours and hours and hours you spend on /r/drama is how deeply irrelevant and boring it all is. People on your sub claim to be in it for the lulz and entertainment. They're really just in it because it's a place where being an asshole on the internet is encouraged. How many /r/drama users do you think also post on Stormfront? [–]to unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago I like how you think I give a flying fuck what you think. Your arrogance is hilarious. [–]from unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago You don't give a fuck about being a halfway decent person. You'll look back on all the hate you spew with regret some day. [–]to unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago "Halfway decent person" isn't a synonym for "always agrees with unwordableweirdness's sad little persecution complex". Kek. [–]from unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago You literally encourage bullying. You can't deny that. [–]to unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago I do? Kek. I'd like to see you find any evidence of me telling people to bully others. Maybe you could stop being an unlikeable that to literally everyone you talk to? You're the kind of arrogant dumbfuck who is universally loathed and yet thinks that it's everyone else who is the problem. [–]from unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago I do? Kek. I'd like to see you find any evidence of me telling people to bully others. That's so much of what goes on in your sub and you know it. Maybe you could stop being an unlikeable that to literally everyone you talk to? You're the kind of arrogant dumbfuck who is universally loathed and yet thinks that it's everyone else who is the problem. Hyperbole doesn't suit you. [–]to unwordableweirdness sent 2 days ago So no actual evidence, then? I'm shocked. [–]from unwordableweirdness sent 1 day ago Reality has no legal team that presents you with evidence. It's sad that you can't admit that your sub bullies people. Hell, just look at u/angrydm [–]from unwordableweirdness sent 1 day ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/4zfem7/mlady_is_upset_she_had_to_pay_25_to_blow_a/d6vxe4z https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/51dy0i/im_getting_hate_because_white_men_are_intimidated/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/515qrn/korean_guy_posts_own_compositions_at_rpiano/d79nyx4 And so on. I spent 4 minutes looking at your history sorted by controversial. You're a pathetic internet bully. [–]to unwordableweirdness sent 1 day ago I personally am a bully, because of things that other people have allegedly done? Lol. You're fucking mental. [–]from unwordableweirdness sent 1 day ago Well, I guess your head is that far up your own ass.
... After losing three consecutive starts for the first time in his career June 17-27, reeled off a 13-start unbeaten streak from July 3-Sept. 14, going 9-0 with a 0.98 ERA (11 ER/101.0 IP) during the run, which tied for the second longest winning streak in the Majors this year. ... Made his fifth consecutive Opening Day start on April 6 vs. San Diego, allowing three runs in 6.0 innings in a no-decision… in Los Angeles history, only Don Drysdale (7, 1972-78) has made more consecutive Opening Day starts. ... Started and won back-to-back division-clinching games against the Giants, tossing 8.0 innings of one-run ball on Sept. 24, 2014 and throwing a one-hit shutout on Sept. 29 at AT&T Park…it was the first one-hitter thrown by a Dodger since Hiroki Kuroda's masterpiece against the Braves on July 7, 2008 at Dodger Stadium and according to Elias, Kershaw became the second pitcher in MLB history to throw a shutout with one hit or less in a division clincher (other: Mike Scott, Sept. 25, 1986 no-hitter, HOU vs. SF). ... Picked up his 100th career win on May 15 vs. Colorado at the age of 27 years, 57 days, becoming the second-youngest active pitcher to reach the milestone. ... Led the Majors with 10 pickoffs • Went 1-1 with a 2.63 ERA (4 ER/13.2 IP) in two postseason starts in the NLDS vs. the Mets, losing Game 1 and picking up the win in Game 4…struck out 19 in 13.2 innings, while posting a 0.88 WHIP.
Several of the critics I spoke with complained that the Institutes did not let academic researchers in, but the staff couldn't have been more welcoming to me. The founder, Glenn Doman, who had turned 88 two weeks earlier, remains an active presence on campus, though his daughter, Janet Doman, has since 1980 served as the Institutes' director. Janet, an elegant 58-year-old wearing a lavender blazer, her charcoal hair pulled back in a tight bun, leads me through the Institutes' once-a-week program for preschoolers. (The campus also features a small school for children in first through eighth grades as well as several programs for brain-injured children and their parents.) Across the morning, as we advance through fast-paced 20-minute blocks of science, music, Japanese, and gymnastics, I meet students and parents who seem uniformly friendly, bright and polite. Indeed, there seems to be much to recommend about the place.
Please let President Obama know he should honor the struggle of those who have gone before and leave a legacy for those who will come after by appointing a strong progressive woman of color as the next justice of the Supreme Court. <http://www.powerpacplus.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fact.democracyforamerica.com%2Fsign%2Fsupremecourtpowerpac%2F&e=0caf77a27d24d22be889e78213219b14&utm_source=pacplus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=scotus_petition&n=3&test_email=1> Thank you for helping overturn the Supreme Court’s legacy of injustice and inequality. -=-=- Paid for by PowerPAC+ and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee. Donate: http://pacplus.nationbuilder.com/donate Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PowerPAC.Plus/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/PowerPAC_Plus YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/aPACPlus Instagram: http://instagram.com/powerpac_plus This email was sent to [email protected]. To stop receiving emails: http://www.powerpacplus.org/unsubscribe -=-=- Created with NationBuilder - http://nationbuilder.com/
One wall[dubious – discuss] was excavated by Charles Warren in 1868 at the request of the Palestine Exploration Fund. He dug through the mud bricks of the wall without realizing what it was, suggesting there was little of interest at the site. Ernest Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated Jericho between 1907 and 1909 and found the remains of two walls which they initially suggested supported the biblical account. They later revised this conclusion and dated their finds to the Middle Bronze Age (1950–1550 BCE). [3] The site was again excavated by John Garstang between 1930 and 1936, who again raised the suggestion that remains of the upper wall was that described in the Bible. [4] Kathleen Kenyon resumed extensive excavations between 1952 and 1958 and found no late Bronze Age defensive wall or pottery. Her excavations found a series of seventeen early Bronze Age walls, some of which she thought may have been destroyed by earthquakes. The last of the walls was put together in a hurry, indicating that the settlement had been destroyed by nomadic invaders. Another wall was built by a more sophisticated culture in the Middle Bronze Age with a steep plastered escarpment leading up to mud bricks on top. After this there was a hiatus until later Iron Age material dating to around the seventh century BCE. They did not find substantial evidence for renewed occupation in the Late Bronze Age at the time of Joshua and the biblical story of the Battle of Jericho, which in general agreed with the earlier statement by Watzinger that "in the time of Joshua, Jericho was a heap of ruins, on which stood perhaps a few isolated huts". [5] Perhaps the most important discovery was evidence that the earliest wall suggested by Kenyon to date to around 8000 BCE based on Radiocarbon dating of material at 7825 BCE from level IV, phase III of the site. This time period was thereafter called the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, a late phase of the Stone Age predating the invention of pottery, and the wall considered part of an early proto-city. [4] It surrounded and protected a Neolithic settlement which contained an organized community of between 2,000 and 3,000 people. [6]
On the last day of the show, when the director did not know I was within earshot, he told someone in the cast, “You wouldn’t believe how long it took me to clean up Nandini’s script.” I called out, “I can hear you.” After an awkward pause, he called back, “Heyyyy! Uh, it was meant for you to hear. I was joking. Got you, didn’t I? So, did you watch the match yesterday?” As people congratulated me on the success of my play, or approached me with doubts about loose ends in the script, I found myself putting on a performance in real life. I was exhausted. How could I explain that the script that was staged was drastically different from the one I wrote? How could I explain that that barely bothered me because I had sunk into depression and insomnia, spurred by a sense of impotence?
This produced a need for the definition of a new failure mode, “Incorrect Mass Properties,” and it is the first of its kind, although there was a Japanese M-5 booster failure that might fit that failure mode as well. The SpaceX catastrophic failure during a tanking test on September 1, 2016, technically does not fit the definition of a launch failure in terms of Federal Aviation Administration standards because it did not occur during an actual launch operation. Nonetheless, it is of interest. It clearly is another case of structural failure, but what is especially interesting about it is the cause. SpaceX reports that the carbon fiber of the helium pressure vessel combined with the liquid oxygen in which it was immersed to produce “solid oxygen” plus flammable carbon, an explosive combination. It appears that, just like the solder problem discovered decades ago, liquid oxygen and carbon can be set off by a variety of initiating sources. It remains to be seen just what that initiating source was, and given the circumstances it may well never be discovered with any certainty. The SpaceX failure points out a universal problem with composite pressure vessels, especially those that use carbon fiber, regardless of the application. Immersing a helium pressure vessel in cryogenic liquid to enable more gas to be pumped into it has been done for decades. The old Atlas E/F boosters used that technique, although the helium tank was outside the LOX tank and had a jacket around it that was filled with liquid nitrogen before launch. Immersing the pressure vessel in LOX was an innovative idea but it was also one that proved to have unexpected and disastrous consequences. If we did a better job of sharing information about failures, even those not previously associated with aerospace applications, we might be able to face the unknown with a bit more confidence. But composite pressure vessels, regardless of application, still have some unknowns associated with them. The Kennedy Space Center suffered a composite pressure vessel failure in one of the labs a few years ago and commissioned a study into just what kind of failures can be expected for such vessels. The theoretical lifetime of composite pressure vessels is in the hundreds if not thousands of years, but how long can they be really expected to last in a real-world environment? This was not a unique question and others had tried to answer it, but with little success.
Hierarchical political economies that have legalized free speech enable money to buy speech [47]. This leads to hierarchs being able to own “the loudest megaphones” which can be used to propagandize to who they rule over. The extreme lack of even playing field for ideas leads to ignorance rather than wisdom. Hierarchical political economies create contexts that inhibit compassion and fuel the flames of non empathy in the upper castes [48]. Abuse and unmet needs, directly from hierarchies and indirectly from hierarchies, foster addiction rather than temperance [49]. Hierarchies foster appeals to authority rather than wisdom and compassion. Rewards and vengeance based education and non participatory education foster obedience to authority and a lack of intrinsic motivation towards education, and participatory education fosters intrinsic motivation and the burden of proof placed on authority [50, 51]. Cooperative goals, systems, and interpersonal relations foster friendliness rather than competitive self maximization. Competitive self maximization is based on wanting others to do worse [52] and has ecocidal consequences. Interpersonal competition creates “low self worth” which in turn generates more competition, fostering everything from parasitic egoism to cowardice rather than a healthy sense of self worth and respect [52]. Self worth and respect minimizes consumption for the sake of status. Given the goal of ecological resilience and social self management, we ought to foster characters that put the burden of proof on rules and that have intrinsic motivation to align with ethical and rational rules and abolish unethical and irrational ones. Quoting Alfie Kohn, “If… the goal is to help students grow into compassionate, principled people, then having students “define the real meaning” of rules is the best way — perhaps the only way — that a list of rules prepared by the teacher can help students become thoughtful decision makers. But such an arrangement can only do so much: it is far better to ask children to create the rules.” [53]. And in familial relations, society, and the classroom we should use a restorative justice approach and a harm reduction approach rather than a vengeance based model to enforce rules that harmonize to create conditions of social freedom, an approach which reduces recidivism, doubles offenses brought to justice, reduces post traumatic stress, provides both victims and offenders more satisfaction than retributive models, reduces desire for revenge, as well as fosters intrinsic motivation rather than only wanting to follow rules out of fear of getting caught [51, 54] .
The French anarchist sociologist Henri Arvon (1980), for example, whose book was translated into Spanish in 1980 as La autogestión and had influence in introducing the term to Latin American countries such as Argentina (Wyczykier, 2009), posits that the desire for autogestión long predates the 1960s social movements. For him, the term parallels the ways that pre- and non-capitalist communities have self-managed their own productive and social affairs. For Arvon, however, the conscious demand for autogestión from workers, underscoring its roots in the stream of self-determination, only arises with the formal subsumption of labor within capitalist paradigms. As more self-determined and locally rooted ways of economic life like the commons and craft-based production began to disappear in Europe with the advent of capitalism, more and more workers began to demand greater participation in economic and productive life and, indeed, increasingly, as witnessed in the rise of worker cooperatives, autonomy from capital and alternatives to waged work. Here we find, according to Arvon, the first modern struggles for and experiments with autogestión, initially theorized most concretely, as I reviewed in the first section of this article, by classical social anarchists. Arvon’s conceptualization of autogestión could also be conceived of using E.P. Thompson’s notion of the moral economy undergirding the drive of marginalized people to self-determine their own economic and social lives and retain traditional and communal ways of provisioning for life’s needs (Thompson, 1991). As Argentine sociologist Gabriela Wyczykier puts it, commenting on Arvon’s historical analysis, the struggle for autogestión ‘reflects a permanent hope for the human being’ for self-determining socio-economic life (Wyczykier, 2009: 30). Most fundamentally, then, extending out from Arvon’s assessment, the desire for autogestión is the historical human drive and demand to be free from exploitation (Bayat, 1991) and to collectively determine the direction of the socio-economic spheres of life (Horvat, 1982), all integral demands in the stream of self-determination.
People need accurate information to make sound decisions about their future. Deciding something based on a lie or obvious propaganda, can be disastrous, even deadly. If the BBC truly wanted to compete with RT,For now, the truth suits Russia. In Ukraine, there really are Neo-Nazis running the government and marching in the streets, just as RT has said all along. The BBC is perhaps one of the few networks still refusing to admit as much, even as mobs flying fascist flags clash with the police in Kiev where injuries and even deaths are now taking place.That could always change for RT. But the BBC along with the rest of the Western media should serve as an example and a warning to RT, and other national broadcasters working to break the West's monopoly over the flow of information. However tempting it might be in the short-term to bend the truth, in the long term credibility is far more valuable than gold, harder to find, and harder to protect. Wall Street and London have all the "gold" in the world, yet with it, they find it impossible to acquire the credibility they need to get people to listen to their side of the story.And ironically, credibility doesn't really require any money at all to acquire. While having studios, channels, and well promoted websites helps increase exposure (something money can buy) any credibility associated with that exposure is acquired simply through the merit of the writers and reporters involved.RT and others across the South and East should keep this lesson above all others close to heart.They are winning the information war, and this is precisely why. The Independent fails to mention that despite what they claim are large sums of money by Russia invested into RT, that the BBC alone is still funded more. Taking into account that the BBC is just one of several massive media networks maintained by the West, all of whom coordinate their narratives, Western spending on media dwarfs that of Russia many times over.The annual budget of RT is estimated to be approximately 300 million USD.Then there are local "independent" media operations around the world funded directly by the US State Department through Freedom House, the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute.The planet is essentially swimming in the lies of the US and UK. Clearly money and exposure is not their problem. Credibility is.
Marlin Jensen: I think it was a real breakthrough personally because when we had the concept approved and were giving thought to how these essays were to be written, our recommendation from the History Department was that we try to locate the best person in the entire church to research and write a response to the issue. And they be paid for it, which is also a novel idea sometimes in our church. And it was approved. It was budgeted for and we did get, in many cases, the very best person to do that. But if I can interject here, Greg, and not to detract or deter from what we are talking about, a little story I’ve enjoyed through the years, an intellectual who died and went to heaven and got to the pearly gates to where St. Peter was. And when he got there, there were two directional signs: one side said “Heaven This Way.” And the other said “Lecture on Heaven This Way.” This is one of the worries that I have. And it’s interesting how my view of these things have changed over the years. There’s a lot to be said about old age, even with the things that atrophy. But one of the things I’m enjoying the most about old age is the more urgent feeling I have, the more seriously I feel about the practice of my religion. For years, especially during the time I served as church historian, I was involved in researching and writing about and speaking about and debating about and defending Latter-day Saint history and doctrine. And admire all of you who are doing that and have done that so well, but at this point in my life, the most urgent need I feel is to just live my religion. To not be girding for the battle anymore, but to actually fight it in my own life and within my own family.
I just wanted to be fair.” Come Friday morning, at least two jurors were now reluctant to vote guilty on any charges. A Final Try Before the jurors resumed deliberating Friday morning, attorneys on both sides urged Judge Mullins to take actions based on Thursday’s notes. Neither side knew a second holdout had emerged. Prosecutor Doyle asked the judge to interview the known holdout juror to see if she or he should be removed from the jury. A juror needs to be “neutral” and “objective,” Doyle argued. Defense attorney Polan argued that that such an inquiry would interfere with and “invade” the sanctity of the jury process. She noted that both sides got to grill potential jurors in open court before the trial began to make sure they’d be fair arbiters. Once evidence is presented in a trial, Polan argued, jurors need not to remain “neutral.” “They’re supposed to develop opinions” on the case, she argued. Polan moved instead to have the judge declare a mistrial. After hearing their arguments, Judge Mullins stated that Doyle made a “reasonable” request for an inquiry, but that it was too soon. Instead, he brought in the jury and instructed it to try again. He issued what’s called a “Chip Smith” directive: He asked the known holdout juror not to “acquiesce” to the majority, but, “in order to bring your minds to a unanimous result,” to show “due regard and deference” the the majority. “Listen with an open mind to each other’s opinions,” Mullins said. Keep in mind, he said, that other jurors are “equally intelligent” even if they have reached a different conclusion. He added this directive: “Do not ever change your mind because other jurors see things differently or to get the case over with.” Got it? Mullins then dispatched the jury to get back to work. “There’s no need to hurry,” he said. The nuances in Mullins’ directive can be traced to the history of the so-called “Chip Smith” charge to juries deadlocked with a holdout or two. Over the years, some lawyers have called the directive “coercive” to the minority. (Attorney Polan made that argument again in court Friday morning.) As a result, the courts have directed judges to add the kind of proviso Mullins added Friday. “They Broke The Law” It didn’t take long for the jury to realize it was getting further from, not closer, to a resolution.
Flying under the radar of mainstream media coverage, supporters of Dr. Ron Paul, a seventy-two year old ten-term congressman and obstetrician from Texas, have staged a political revolution. Despite little publicity, they have raised over $15 million, mostly in small donations, giving Paul more money in the bank than John McCain. In a November 5 “money bomb” (inspired by Guy Fawkes Day as depicted in the film, “V for Vendetta”) the Paul Revolutionaries raked in $4.3 million. In doing so, they set a new one-day record for all Republican candidates. In addition, Paul’s backers have spontaneously organized over 1,100 meet-up groups. That’s more than any other candidate in the race including the youthful and photogenic Barak Obama. By all indications, most of the meet-up group members, now numbering over 60,000, are under age twenty-five. Paul’s appeal can be attributed to his no-holds-barred small government, pro-liberty message as well as his consistent call to bring home the troops. Reporters are right to emphasize the wide gap between Paul and the pro-war Republican presidential field but they should not stop there. If they dig a little deeper, they will find that his disagreements with Democrats are equally great. Paul is the only candidate in either party who wants to shut down the entire American overseas political and military Empire. Rather than “isolationist” in foreign policy, however, Paul embraces as his own Thomas Jefferson’s stated goal of “peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.” But, unlike our third president, Paul appears bound and determined to apply these words across-the-board. His voting record shows a consistent support for free trade and legislation to redirect the military strictly to home defense rather than foreign occupation. The Democrats, by contrast, largely share the bi-partisan post-World War II consensus of spreading democracy, human rights, or “vital interests” by military force. Few subscribe to this consensus more zealously than Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton who has considerable credentials as a hawk dating back to her husband’s administration. Most notably, she was an aggressive cheerleader for the bombing campaigns against both Iraq and Serbia in Kosovo. Paul, like many Republicans at the time, opposed both. Although Hillary later broke with Bush on Iraq, she rejects a non-interventionist approach. She wants to leave U.S. troops behind in Iraq to fight al Qaeda as well as keep them in the region.
Not trying to put words in your mouth - that's just the standard libertarian philosophy.Stranger: Yes definitelyStranger: I was a fan of NozickYou: Gotcha.Stranger: self-ownership is correct.You: So did you move away from it because you decided against that principle, or you were convinced by utilitarian arguments?Stranger: BothYou: Okay - I fully accept that (not the utilitarian bit) as an internally consistent argument.You: If you don't believe in self-ownership, the moral argument doesn't followYou: Fair?Stranger: YesStranger: Do you read much political philosophy?You: TonsStranger: GreatStranger: Do you like Michael Sandel?Stranger: The Justice seriesStranger: HarvardStranger: Well if you're interestedYou: Yeah - I've heard of him before - don't know much besides surface stuff.Stranger: Michael Sandel has a lecture series on his harvard political philosophy lecturesStranger: You can watch them onlineStranger: each one is an hour longStranger: There is a specific oneStranger: about libertarianismStranger: and he presents the notion of self-ownershipStranger: followed by the moral argumentYou: Okay - so do you take a principled position as well still, or are you purely a utilitarian now?You: If so - what axiom do you use?Stranger: Sets the premise using the philosophies of Locke and Nozick etc.Stranger: hold onStranger: SoStranger: In the next lecture Sandel has a discussion with the Harvard Libertarian ClubStranger: He is known for forcing people to take a principled stance on their viewsStranger: and he does just that with libertarianismStranger: and the result is rather entertainingStranger: SoStranger: You are libertarian, correct?You: Want to try that with me?Stranger: SureYou: I'd be glad to oblige.Stranger: GreatYou: Not afraid to put my assumptions on the chopping block. :PYou: (By the way, even though we disagree, this is already one of the most rational discussions I've had today here)Stranger: In your brief opinion what is the purpose of government?You: Well, I don't believe it has any legitimate purpose.Stranger: National defense?You: Nope.Stranger: Enforcement of rights?You: Nope. I believe in a stateless society.Stranger: WowStranger: OkayStranger: So you're an anarcho libertarian of some sort I don't know exactly which yetYou: I normally wouldn't put it quite so bluntly - but I want to make sure I keep consistent.You: Right - I prefer the term voluntarist.Stranger: I seeYou: Better positive descriptionYou: Kind of a Rothbard/Stirner blend, personally.Stranger: InterestingStranger: This might prove harder than I thought, you're not a typical libertarianStranger: So, completely stateless society, no public institutions?You: Well, I take this position, even though it was difficult to arrive at, because I believe in finding truth.
I prefer another economist, Ronald M. Schmidt, at the University of Rochester’s business school, who took the analysis of inequality in a different direction. He looked at how educational choices impacted earnings. In comments on a Congressional Budget Office report, he argued that incomes began to diverge greatly from 1979 to 1986, and the gap had actually started to close in the years after the Great Recession. He wrote that income inequality had been declining since 2000—the year after the dot-com bubble burst. What was more compelling to me, though, was his exposition of three male workers who made different educational choices but all finished high school in 1980. One stopped at high school, another got a college degree, and the third went on to graduate school. “In 1987, when these three were between the ages of 25 and 34, the average high school graduate earned $22,595, while a college graduate earned $31,631 and a holder of a graduate degree earned $36,667,” Schmidt wrote. “But 20 years later, in 2007, the corresponding averages for male full-time workers ages 45 to 54 were $46,667, $88,242, and $120,391.” Here was his key point: “Unequal? Yes. But the increase in inequality arose because these individuals made different decisions about their education, not because tax policy favors the rich. In essence, economic inequality is another term for incentives that encourage investment in education—or, for that matter, starting a new business.” He went on to argue against raising taxes on the wealthy, but he also made the case for people to realize that the choices they make in life have economic consequences. If you look at data on the One Percent, his point is born out. About a third of them started businesses. The next big chunk were doctors at 16 percent. Financiers were right behind them at 14 percent. Athletes and celebrities, who may have limited education, were 2 percent of the top group. What wasn’t clear from the data was where these people had started out in life—were they born with lots of financial and family advantages that put them ahead of their peers or had they worked their way up?
Thus, this lawsuit comes after years of negotiations by Conservancy to achieve compliance — negotiations that ended in an outright refusal by VMware's lawyers to comply. Those events were then followed by a year of work by Christoph and Till to achieve compliance in a separate action. Simply put, Conservancy and Christoph fully exhausted every possible non-litigation strategy and tactic to convince VMware to do the right thing before filing this litigation.
He'll play that one too!" And you're right! And then they're gonna make a fucking third one! And I'm gonna play that too! And I'M LOOKING LIKE A FUCKING ASSHOLE , like I always do when I play these goddamn games! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! !
Everywhere I went I was shown the same mechanic it also got tedious and I got bored. Itemization during these levels were so bad it left a lasting impression and I remembered the quest names. The Skeech Invasion (fun quest btw) I got blackheart stakers (level 19) it was the same model and had the same exact stats as the quest reward for the Blind Hunt, the weapon was called Bladed hackers of the unclean. A few others were Fang of Spitha, I got this from a quest and then after that I got two other quests that gave me the weapons Stemming tide plague and Fieldclaw field claws those two had the exact same model and stats also and they were both quest rewards after the one for Spitha. Now I may have gotten lucky on Spitha, but I believe that everyone gets a unique weapon from that "boss" mob. Add more choices to pick from quest rewards Change the models, at least recolor them. Fieldclaw and Stemming tide could easily have different blade colors (one red, one blue) I understand that it is a beta, but I am pointing these things out so that they do not get overlooked. (Btw I prefer completely new models, I honestly don't mind if the stats are the same. But for most even a +5 on assault power would have been enough). Questing Mini games There are a few different "Mini-Games" for questing, such as press and hold, tap tap tap, and memorize this color pattern. most cases it makes sense to use one of these mechanics to improve questing, such as repeatedly tapping T to root out some weeds, or memorize color pattern to hack a system. But more often than not all of these mechanics become tedious after a while and sometimes they are given to you back to back to back and that's when you notice it more. I honestly love the mechanics and the first time I saw the color code memory game I was instantly hooked. Switch up the memory game a bit, it gets used too much, when I repair a robot how about letting me play a different mini game. Such as moving around gears in a metal box which is basically a kind of puzzle. Different size gears should be available, and they all fit in a slot, the goal is to get all gears to spin and to fix the machine.
The shooter remains at large, police continue to search the campus. Please REMAIN INDOORS until further notice. EDIT 12:45 EST: /u/speedbreeze has a summary in multiple languages. They have fact-checked info, where I relay what I am hearing on the feed. EDIT 12:47 EST: /u/sceptre886 mentioned the car stolen is a Mercedes ML-350. Tag number 137 NZ1 EDIT 12:49 EST: Shots fired in Cambridge. Shots and Explosions in Watertown. EDIT 12:50 EST: Shots fired. Grenades spotted. EDIT 12:51 EST: More shots, explosion. Grenade went off. EDIT 12:55 EST: Officer down. Explosives at scene. 94 Spruce Street?? EDIT 12:56 EST: Reports of a stolen state police truck. Black, 4 door. EDIT 12:57 EST: Second officer down. Hand Grenades...automatic weapons fired. EDIT 12:58 EST: Spruce (sp?) and Lincoln EDIT 1:00 EST: Dexter and Laural. Suspect injured. Explosives in the area. EDIT 1:01 EST: Officers ordered back. Map of area thanks to /u/rm-rf_ EDIT 1:01 EST: Suspect is on foot. EDIT 1:02 EST: /u/iBrave sent me another map EDIT 1:03 EST: Bomb Squad on their way. EDIT 1:05 EST: Officers asked to power off phones/leave them in the car to prevent explosions. EDIT 1:06 EST: 2 explosives confirmed. One near down officer. Robot in area to diffuse. EDIT 1:09 EST: Suspect car still in the area. EDIT 1:09 EST: Parameter from unnamed source. EDIT 1:10 EST: Watertown not answering phones. Suspect in ambulance, one at gun point. EDIT 1:11 EST: OFFICER MISSING! [NVM, thank God]! EDIT 1:11 EST: They are taking one of the suspects to Beth Israel (hospital). (Thanks /u/TheVacillate) EDIT 1:12 EST: FBI on scene (thanks /u/bnjmn556) EDIT 1:13 EST: Roll call to make sure everyone is okay/accounted for. EDIT 1:17 EST: MIT updated their site: Suspect remains at large. EDIT 1:19 EST: 2 in custody. EDIT 1:19 EST: Another guy down? EDIT 1:20 EST: Photos and Videos EDIT 1:22 EST: Reports of suspect heavily armed in backyards. EDIT 1:23 EST: MSP called for K9 unit. EDIT 1:25 EST: May NOT have second suspect!!! EDIT 1:26 EST: Reports of pressure cooker bombs!!! EDIT 1:29 EST: Active shooter. audio noises EDIT 1:29 EST: CNN has footage of suspect at gun point. EDIT 1:30 EST: No report of an active shooter at this time. 40 police cars on their way to Watertown. EDIT 1:32 EST: Second suspect reported to be in custody. No active shooters. No shots fired. EDIT 1:33 EST *: Police are making people turning off their phones.
Apple has made it easier than ever for users to create custom watch faces on their Apple Watch in iOS 11, thanks to a new share sheet option within Photos on iPhone.On the current operating systems for iPhone and Apple Watch, users can choose a "Photo" watch face to add to their Apple Watch, but the only way to change the picture is to customize the face on the Apple Watch and swipe left and right through photos in a synced album. "Photo Album" is also available, which automatically shuffles up which picture will appear on Apple Watch -- again, within a selected album -- each time the wrist is raised.Now, Apple has added in a simple new share sheet to Photos on iOS 11, as spotted by French site Watch Generation Google Translate ]. After a photo is selected the sheet gives the option to "Create Watch Face," then users have to choose which face they prefer: a typical photo face where the image is presented as normal, or they can turn the image into one of Apple Watch's new kaleidoscope faces.For the Photos face, users can now also select 10 custom images directly within the Watch app to add into the photo rotation of the watch face. This should make creating a custom Photos watch face much easier than the current method in iOS 10, where users either have to choose from one of the pre-set albums in iOS, or go into the Photos app to build a custom one with the images they want to see on their Apple Watch face.For the kaleidoscope watch face, Apple appears to have multiple pre-set images to choose from that result in the distorted images seen at WWDC this week, including a flower and a few of the colorful exploding sand imagery already available as iOS wallpaper options. When users add in a custom image, it'll appear at the end of this list. There are also custom styles of kaleidoscope to choose from, including one that distorts images with triangular geometry ("Facet") and one with softer circles ("Radial").Check out previous MacRumors coverage from WWDC week for more iOS 11 tidbits, including easier Wi-Fi password sharing QR code support in Camera , and more. There's also our hands-on video with the new iOS that walks through a few of the biggest additions to the iPhone software, which will launch for everyone sometime this fall.
Apple today seeded the third beta of iOS 9 to developers for testing purposes, just over two weeks after releasing the second beta and exactly a month after unveiling the new operating system at the 2015 Worldwide Developers Conference The update, build 13A4293f, is available through Apple's over-the-air updating system on iOS devices and is also available for download through the Apple Developer Center.As promised by Eddy Cue last week, today's beta includes the updated Music app, allowing those running iOS 9 to access the new Apple Music service and the Beats 1 radio station. Today's beta also includes the new News app, a new two-factor authentication system , and more. For a full rundown of changes, make sure to check out our iOS 9 beta 3 tidbits post iOS 9 is Apple's newest operating system, focusing on intelligence and proactivity. It allows iOS devices to learn user habits and act on that information, providing recommendations on places we might like, apps we might like to use, and more. Siri is smarter in iOS 9, with the ability to create contextual reminders, and search is improved with new sources.Many of the built in apps have been improved, including Notes, Maps, and Mail. Passbook has been renamed to Wallet, and iOS 9 introduces split-screen multitasking for the iPad along with a revamped keyboard. In addition to these consumer-facing features, iOS 9 brings significant under-the-hood performance improvements.With battery optimizations, iOS devices have an additional hour of battery life, and a new Low Power Mode extends the battery even further. iOS updates take up less space in iOS 9, and many app install sizes are smaller due to a feature called app thinning. iOS 9 is capable of running on all devices that support iOS 8.iOS 9 is currently only available to developers, but Apple plans to introduce a public iOS 9 beta in July before the final release of the software in the fall.
Similarly, 'buddha' or 'bodha' means the 'awakened one' or 'the one who has realised his true Self'.The claim that Siva can only grant material wishes is also a cooked up story and only those who do not want moksha and are satisfied with the fulfilment of material objects worship Siva. Infact Siva is often shown as an ascetic, while viShNu is always shown as wearing golden jewellery and wearing a crown. Siva does not wear crown. Nowhere you will find either only veda-s or in mahAbhArata or purANa that Siva is incapable of granting moksha. On one hand vaiShNava-s consider Siva and brahmA jI as param-bhAgavata (greatest devotee of viShNu) and on the other hand they leave on opportunity to denigrate the status of bhagavAn Siva. In this process they desparetely try to prove the Siva or rudra was born hence cannot be Ishvara. In this process of denigrating status of Siva, they break the basic tenets of Vaishnavism - jIva, jagat and Ishvara are eternal. If we consider Siva worship as 'leading to hell', then it contradicts their claim of Siva being param-bhAgavata. If parama-bhAgavata Siva can lead one to hell, then what about other devotee of bhagavAn viShNu? Does bhagavAn viShNu teach his senior devotees to lead laymen to hell? The logic is flawed, smelling double standards and is unacceptable.
They also used a special dye to visualise the movement and motion of the structures.Through this the researchers learnt a considerable amount about the forces involved. For example, they discovered that actin inside the filopodia showed a marked twisting motion. When the material drew back, spiral folds were formed in a similar way to twisting a rubber band. It seems that spiral shapes are common in nature, even down to the structure of DNA.The study was conducted at the University of Copenhagen - Niels Bohr Institute. The findings have been published in the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The paper is headed “Helical buckling of actin inside filopodia generates traction.” More about Cells, Sensory, Humans, Biochemistry, filopodia More news from Cells Sensory Humans Biochemistry filopodia
Winklevoss Brothers convince the Peruvian Brothers Food Truck to accept Bitcoin Peruvian Brothers: Washington D.C.’s First Food Truck to Accept Digital Currency Budding entrepreneurs Giuseppe and Mario Lanzone are launching the DC food truck scene into the next era of commerce. Starting December 9th, Peruvian Brothers food truck will become the first mobile vendor in the nation’s capital to accept the cutting edge of cryptocurrency: Bitcoin. In an industry that has flourished under the digital age, food truck customers can track down their favorite foods prepared in a mobile kitchens using social media and geo-location, order their favorite dish and pay for their meal, all with their smartphone. HOW IT WORKS: PB loving customers order their favorite “comida criolla” flavors from the Peruvian Brothers food truck and upon seeing the PB QR Code signifying that they are a Bitcoin friendly vendor, simply inform the teller that they will be paying digitally. Currently, Peruvian Brothers are utilizing Bitpay as a merchant interface through an iPhone app that creates a QR code specific to its BitPay account. For every transaction, BitPay creates a unique address in the form of a QR code that reflects the real time exchange rate for the amount of Bitcoin/USD the truck is requesting in exchange for food. Customers will then scan that QR code with their smartphone and approve the transaction using whatever Bitcoin wallet they have. When accepting a payment using Bitcoin, Peruvian Brothers has the option to transfer the USD amount directly to their bank account to keep a seamless line of cash flow or keep their Bitcoins as an investment that they can later cash in depending on the ever-fluctuating value of the digital currency. WHY: A smart lead from Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, Giuseppe’s Olympic Rowing teammates and close friends with a knack for knowing what’s hot in the tech world, sent PB back to the drawing room to implement the latest craze in digital currency. With their tech-savvy guidance, Peruvian Brothers are rolling out an easy vending solution that offers lower payment processing and more secure transactions. For a small business, these perks are unmatched. In the simplest transaction, a sandwich is sold for Bitcoin which is then instantly sold to Bitpay for its current USD market value, insulating the vendor from the fluctuations in the Bitcoin market and charging a fraction of the traditional credit card exchange rates.
Results Euro, US Dollar, Canadian Dollar, Croatian Luna, Romanian Leu (RON), Moroccan Dirham, and Indian Rupee banknotes were included into the first part of the study. Cultures of the Romanian Leu yielded all 3 multi-drug resistant pathogens; MRSA, VRE and ESBL-producing E. coli. The Canadian and (US) American Dollar only yielded MRSA; the Euro only ESBL-producing E. coli, the Indian Rupee only VRE, and the Croatian Luna did not yield any of the 3 microorganisms (Table ). The Romanian Leu yielded all three microorganisms after both, three and six hours of drying, and it was the only currency which yielded a microorganism, VRE, after one day of drying. The Canadian Dollar yielded MRSA and VRE after six hours of drying. The Euro yielded ESBL-producing E. coli in the 3 and 6-h cultures, VRE in the 3-h culture, but at no time MRSA (Table ). Table 1 Country Currency MRSA VRE ESBL (+) E.coli Direct wet swab Tube titration of swab Direct wet swab Tube titration of swab Direct wet swab Tube titration of swab European countries Euro Ø Ø + Ø +++ +++ Croatia Kuna Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Ø Romania Leu (RON) +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ Morocco Dirham Ø Ø + Ø ++ Ø USA Dollar +++ +++ ++ Ø + Ø Canada Canadian Dollar +++ +++ + Ø +++ Ø India Rupee Ø Ø + Ø Ø Ø Open in a separate window Table 2 Time (h) Currency MRSA VRE ESBL (+) E.coli 3 Euro Ø + + Kuna Ø Ø Ø Leu (RON) +++ +++ +++ Dirham Ø + Ø Dollar + Ø + Canadian Dollar + Ø Ø Rupee Ø + Ø 6 Euro Ø Ø + Kuna Ø Ø Ø Leu (RON) +++ +++ +++ Dirham Ø Ø Ø Dollar Ø + + Canadian Dollar + + Ø Rupee Ø Ø Ø 24 Euro Ø Ø Ø Kuna Ø Ø Ø Leu (RON) ++ Ø Ø Dirham Ø Ø Ø Dollar Ø Ø Ø Canadian Dollar Ø Ø Ø Rupee Ø Ø Ø Open in a separate window The second part of the study, the transmission experiments, was based on the results of the first part. Consequently, the Euro, Romanian Leu and US Dollar was used, after inoculation with E. coli (Euro) and MSSA (US Dollar), or both (Leu), respectively. The transmission did not succeed after contact with the contaminated Euro banknotes, in any of 3 subjects (Table ).
Those who think that modern Muslims have abandoned this teaching should study the pictures and videos that accompany this article and recall the words of Ayatollah Khomeini, the most famous Islamic cleric of the 20thCentury: A man can have sexual pleasure from a child as young as a baby. However, he should not penetrate; sodomizing the child is OK. If a man penetrates and damages the child, then he should be responsible for her subsistence all her life. This girl, however, does not count as one of his four permanent wives. The man will not be eligible to marry the girl's sister. It is better for a girl to marry in such a time when she would begin menstruation at her husband's house rather than her father's house. Any father marrying his daughter so young will have a permanent place in heaven. [7] [1]Sahih Bukhari, 1:268, translated by M. Mushin Khan, Muslim Student Association, The University of Southern California, 2001, www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/fundamentals/hadithsunnah/bukhari
Neither driver was injured, but the crash highlighted the challenges with so many cars moving through the area during the morning rush hour, with no clear direction. "I could see the vehicle stopped in that lane, but then I couldn't see the traffic in the other lane. They came to a complete stop, I went and that vehicle didn't and she was going full speed," said Mike Popielski.Traffic backed up as it creeped through downtown streets, with traffic officers working the major intersections to help things move more smoothly.Police remind drivers anytime you come to an intersection where the signal lights aren't working, treat it like a four-way stop.Meanwhile, one person was stuck on an elevator when the power first went out and had to be rescued by firefighters, but no injuries were reported.For now, IFD is asking people to avoid the area and to not walk near manhole covers.IPL will meet with state regulators Friday morning. An official with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission told Eyewitness News it would be the first time the commission had ever held an emergency conference. According to the official, the commission is very concerned with the frequency of the explosions.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Again, Matt McCutcheon first arrived on the scene around 7:00 a.m., and tweeted, "I personally just heard a series of pops and saw a spark and now heavy smoke above this smoldering manhole. "He then tweeted this photo, showing traffic backing up on Capitol.One minute later, Matt tweeted, "Just heard another boom. "Firefighters tell him that manhole covers close by should be considered dangerous, weighing nearly 100 pounds.He tweeted this photo around 7:20 a.m., saying, "As smoke continues to billow, we've been pushed back for fear of exploding man hole covers. "During Matt's 7:27 a.m. report, another manhole exploded behind him.This is the manhole cover that exploded near Matt.
In crown‐group ants, trap‐jaw behaviour has evolved at least four times in three subfamilies: Formicinae, Myrmicinae and Ponerinae (Larabee & Suarez, 2014). Species employing trap jaws are capable of ‘setting’ their mandibles in the open position before rapidly striking them closed, usually in the service of prey capture but occasionally in a defensive effort (Patek et al., 2006; Larabee & Suarez, 2015). While mechanisms for storing and releasing the potential energy required for swift prey capture vary, nearly all modern trap‐jaw ants possess trigger hairs that initiate mandible closure. All described haidomyrmecines possess elongate, paired setae present on the clypeus. These setae have been interpreted as trigger hairs (Barden & Grimaldi, 2012; McKellar et al., 2013; Perrichot et al., 2016) and probably function as sensors for rapid mandible closure, as in modern trap‐jaw ants. In all cases, these elongate clypeal setae rest directly in the most probable path of mandibular motion. Additionally, all hell ants exhibit an unusually modified clypeal sclerite, which stretches from the anteroventral margin of the head, near the oral opening, to the apex of the head – a syndrome unknown in other ants. The elongated nature of the clypeus may be a modification that would allow for the capture of prey positioned anteriorly – a strategy that would otherwise be untenable given the hypognathous head. The clypeal cuticle of ‘hell ants’ is characteristically raised along the upper margin, always with a clypeal brush composed of shortened, stout setae. Mandibular apices, in turn, are dorsally expanded to meet this clypeal process when fully closed, and would therefore be effective in prey capture. In some cases, raised clypeal cuticle may appear as a slight node whereas in the most extreme sense, as in Ceratomyrmex and, to a lesser extent, Linguamyrmex, the clypeus is distended into a conspicuous cephalic horn. Here, the function of the clypeal process acting as a pinning or stopping point is underscored. Almost certainly, the modifications of the mandibles and clypeus occur in a complementary fashion.
When making tea, I usually would boil the leaves three times for ten to fifteen minutes, and then combine and drink the three liquid extracts. It is good to triple boil the leaves this way, because the alkaloids in kratom do not extract very well with just a simple steeping. A triple boiled tea of the leaves is much stronger (and more bitter tasting!) than simply steeping the leaves. If simply steeping in hot water, I would usually re-steep the leaves two or three times to ensure getting all of the actives. Since the alkaloids are all in liquid solution, a tea made this way comes on pretty fast, and drops off faster than making a tea with powdered leaf. The main thing here for me is not to drink the tea too fast, otherwise I will get nauseous (more on this below). The tea finishes coming up around an hour after I finish drinking it, and the effects last about five hours.Chewing the dry, crushed leaf is quite a bit different from making either of the tea methods discussed above. Traditionally the leaves are chewed (usually fresh leaves) to allow workers to do hard, physical labour. I find that compared to either of the tea methods, chewing the leaves has a more stimulating but shorter lasting effect. I take a small to medium sized pinch and place the leaves in my mouth, letting my saliva moistening them and then slowing chewing for five to ten minutes, gradually swallowing the chewed up leaves. Kratom has a drying effect, after a few minutes of chewing my mouth can become very dry and so I drink a little hot water or tea to moisten my mouth, and also to activate the leaves in my stomach.The effects of chewing are noticeable within five minutes of starting to chew the leaves, and peak around an hour into the experience. Chewing the leaves can make me feel very high, very spaced out. I would say this is the most noticeably psychoactive way of using the leaves. I usually have lots of energy for an hour and a half, and then the effects drop off and become more sedative and relaxing. Usually after an hour or an hour and a half, when the effects are declining, I feel a desire to chew some more leaves and get that rising, stimulant feeling again.
The problems in that ... I was also helped start the first Hospice program in a prison anywhere.I happened to be doing my time at the US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, which was the maximum security federal prison. They brought medical patients from the federal penitentiaries there, the highest security federal prisons, and this was the height of the AIDS epidemic, so we were dealing with all that. With another inmate, and the support of the prison chaplain, and the prison psychologist, started the first Hospice program in a prison anywhere, and then later went on to start National Prison Hospice Association to get that movement out into the world. Today there's over 80 state and federal prison Hospice programs in the country. It's one of the things I ... Really helps me sleep at night, that I feel good about something I've done with my life.Any rate, there was a lot more conflict around that, because there were inmates working as hospital orderlies that would really prey on the patients, steal their food, steal their tennis shoes, steal their belongings, especially when they were dying. As a Hospice volunteer, you often found yourself protecting your patient and I often got into conflicts there. You could just get into conflicts anywhere in the prison. I lived on a unit designed for 50 people that had 120 men on it, and no air conditioning in the summer, so there was a conflict, or a fight, or a dangerous violent encounter waiting around every corner at every time of day. Really with mindfulness and awareness I probably avoided thousands of encounters. I did get into five or six potentially really dangerous encounters, and fortunately I managed to handle them without hurting anybody else or getting myself hurt, but sometimes you really had to step up and challenge the situation.More, it was more around that Hospice work that I found myself getting into even more potentially conflictual situations. There were a couple other times. People that are in for sexual offenses often are preyed upon in both state and federal institutions. The state penitentiaries are the worst, but there was a guy coming to our meditation group for awhile, there was another guy that was also a teacher in the education department for awhile, both who were in for sexual offenses having to do with minors.
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The frontal lobe is well-known for its role in speech and language processes and executive functions that include working memory, planning, and decision making (Fuster, 2008). Early lesion studies indicated that lesions of prefrontal cortex caused impairments in delay response, delay spatial alternation, and delay object alternation tasks (Pribram et al., 1952; Mishkin and Pribram, 1955, 1956; Pribram and Mishkin, 1956; Mishkin et al., 1969). Later, more precise lesion studies implicated DLPFC in spatial and delay processes (Malmo, 1942; Mishkin, 1957; Passingham, 1975; Mishkin and Manning, 1978). In contrast, lesions of VLPFC resulted in impaired performance in non-spatial tasks and implicated VLPFC in object recognition (Mishkin and Manning, 1978). In the last two decades there have been a wealth of neuroimaging studies in human subject and single-unit recording studies in non-human primates, which confirm a role in working memory for the prefrontal cortex (Funahashi et al., 1993; Awh et al., 1996; McCarthy et al., 1996; Miller et al., 1996; Owen et al., 1996; Courtney et al., 1997; D'Esposito et al., 2000; Fuster et al., 2000; Bunge et al., 2003; Postle et al., 2003; Bor et al., 2004; Rowe et al., 2008). Unfortunately most neurophysiology studies utilize visual working memory paradigms. Therefore, while these studies have shed light on the neuronal mechanisms underlying prefrontal visual information processing and visual memory, there is much less known about prefrontal processing of auditory information. Fortunately, the past decade has seen several advances in our understanding of the organization of the primate auditory cortical system and how this system, is critical for speech, auditory attention, and multisensory integration. These advances have made it possible and necessary to investigate the pathways that bring auditory information to the prefrontal cortex and the neural mechanisms which underlie auditory cognition.
Adobe Illustrator to Inkscape: Adobe’s vector drawing system is one of the best in the industry. However, like Photoshop, the price can be prohibitive for some designers and artists. Try Inkscape instead, an open source vector graphics editor similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X. Inkscape uses the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format and it supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.). Finally, the streamlined interface is easy to use to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. Adobe Photoshop to GIMP: Even if you’re paying for upgrades instead of the original package, the price for Adobe’s Photoshop can be prohibitive for some photographers and graphic designers. Try GIMP to see if this open source tool can’t provide you with all the power you need for your photography and graphic design needs. GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program, and it’s the solution that comes closest to emulating the Photoshop environment. Adobe Premiere to Avidemux: Premier is state of the art real-time non-linear video editing for any format including High Definition (HD). Supports 16-bit color resolution, GPU accelerated rendering for faster effects and even advanced DVD authoring. On the other hand, Avidemux provides Windows, Mac, and Linux users with an easy-to-use open source tool for DVD/DivX converting and editing. Avidemux also has scripting support for automation and even offers DVD authoring with the addition of the open source software, dvdauthor. AutoCAD to Archimedes: AutoCAD is an AutoDesk tool used by any designer who creates design drafts — mostly architects. Archimedes is an open source computer aided design (CAD) alternative that focuses primarily on architectural design. AutoCAD definitely has the winning score thus far, but Archimedes shows promise. The latter program contains all the drawing features a designer would need, but its interoperability is weak. Designers still can export scalable vector graphics, so there’s a real market for this open source tool. Microsoft PowerPoint to OpenOffice Impress: You can make a move away from this Microsoft tool with the use of Google’s Presentation or with OpenOffice’s Impress. Both tools represent full-featured presentation applications that allow users to create and modify diagrams and pictures right within the application.
Your thoughts about rewrites seem unorthodox to me. Let me clarify what I think of new projects, rewrites, and refactoring. Subversion, git, and Mercurial are not rewrites of CVS. They are new projects with similar goals. If they had the exact same feature sets they'd be called clones. There's no rewriting at all. There's just a fresh writing. A total rewrite is when you start writing the same project over from scratch. You throw your existing code base in the bin and plan to eventually ship a new version that started from different empty files. It probably won't pass the same external tests, and unit tests likely won't resemble the old ones. It likely uses an improved framework or a completely different one based on different concepts. A partial rewrite is when you rewrite some portion -- a module, a source file, a few functions -- over from scratch. Most of the external tests will still work so long as you don't change too many features at the same time. Unit tests for the rewritten portions will likely need to change unless you carefully stick to the same API and internal interfaces as before. Refactoring is when you clean up existing code and don't remove any code until you've got the replacement ready so it passes the same unit tests. You don't violate separation of concerns at all while refactoring. You just clean up what's there between change orders. The APIs between modules don't change. The internal interfaces stay the same except among very closely related functions or methods, and you end up with basically the same program. All external tests of the program pass without change. Most unit tests don't change, and the very few that do are just minor tweaks. The implementation is just clearer and maybe the execution path is shorter for the most common cases. Bugs probably don't even get fixed, although they are likely to be easier to notice by reasoning about the code. You're just cleaning the code, and you can generate a new ticket for the newly found bugs. A change order is executed from any feature requests or bug tickets. This is when functionality changes without a rewrite. Let's talk about bugs first. Generally just enough lines are changed to fix behavior for a bug, and the code around it is only cleaned up at this point if necessary to make the bug fix manageable.
Conclusion We have outlined a series of recommended best practices for scientific computing based on extensive research, as well as our collective experience. These practices can be applied to individual work as readily as group work; separately and together, they improve the productivity of scientific programming and the reliability of the resulting code, and therefore the speed with which we produce results and our confidence in them. They are also, we believe, prerequisites for reproducible computational research: if software is not version controlled, readable, and tested, the chances of its authors (much less anyone else) being able to re-create results are remote. Our 24 recommendations are a beginning, not an end. Individuals and groups who have incorporated them into their work will find links to more advanced practices at Software Carpentry (http://software-carpentry.org). Research suggests that the time cost of implementing these kinds of tools and approaches in scientific computing is almost immediately offset by the gains in productivity of the programmers involved [17]. Even so, the recommendations described above may seem intimidating to implement. Fortunately, the different practices reinforce and support one another, so the effort required is less than the sum of adding each component separately. Nevertheless, we do not recommend that research groups attempt to implement all of these recommendations at once, but instead suggest that these tools be introduced incrementally over a period of time. How to implement the recommended practices can be learned from many excellent tutorials available online or through workshops and classes organized by groups like Software Carpentry. This type of training has proven effective at driving adoption of these tools in scientific settings [17],[69]. For computing to achieve the level of rigor that is expected throughout other parts of science, it is necessary for scientists to begin to adopt the tools and approaches that are known to improve both the quality of software and the efficiency with which it is produced. To facilitate this adoption, universities and funding agencies need to support the training of scientists in the use of these tools and the investment of time and money in building better scientific software. Investment in these approaches by both individuals and institutions will improve our confidence in the results of computational science and will allow us to make more rapid progress on important scientific questions than would otherwise be possible.
The first thing I want to show you is if you've not seen Azure, this is the portal that you get. So you do a lot of your configuration and deployment stuff in there if you want. Whatever you can do in the user interface here, there's a whole set of PowerShell and CLI script that you can do automatically. So to base everything around their own API, so you can build everything you see in there, you can generally do, via some API, and probably do more than you can on here. If I want to create a new Service Fabric cluster, I click the plus button and it should come up with Service Fabric, so put in a unique name. Hope nobody's nicked that since yesterday. That's fine. And one of the nice things it does is, I've typed admin in there. It's actually saying username you can't put admin in there anymore. They'll stop you doing that, so you've got to use your own user names now. Similarly, if I do what I did earlier pass that word one, it's doing exactly the same, so it won't let me now do that thing I did previously. So it's actually pretty good there, but it doesn't actually just stop me putting another one on the end. And it also uses Azure Resource templates, so it needs a resource group. I've already got one created, because I've already deployed out, so I'll use mine I've already got. And you can change where you want it located, so I want to put it into North Europe which is actually Dublin, which is a bit weird because West Europe's, Amsterdam. We click on OK, that should take us to the next thing, and this is where we configure up the actual machines. And what you're doing in Service Fabric is you have different application types. So you create nodes, different nodes for those application types. Now I only want one. I'm just going to create the same sort of machine, but you could create a different sort of node types, but depending on what your workload is. So if you've got something that's computer heavy and needs a big machine, you could actually have a specific node type for that, and you can scale these out. Service Fabric will manage where all the applications go based on what node type you configured. So I just want one.
But he is also, that old person might notice, green — at 30, Barack Obama was just graduating from Harvard Law — and on the trail, it shows. He has the right profile and the right temperament for suburban Democrats who’d have probably preferred another Obama term, but in the short campaign, he hasn’t yet managed to refine his pitch. He talks mostly about holding those in power “accountable,” suggesting he could use his documentary-filmmaker chops in the Capitol, perhaps by setting up an investigative unit in his office — a nice idea, but what it would look like, or how it would be better or more effective than the House Oversight Committee, is not entirely clear. He’s reluctant to get into specifics on other matters — not because he can’t, it’s clear when talking to him, but because he’s afraid anything he says will come back to haunt him. Asked to explain his ideal foreign policy, he said simply, “Tough and smart,” before finally explaining that meant avoiding quagmires like the Iraq War but adding that there aren’t any members of Congress who come to mind whose foreign policy aligns closely with his. And when I asked him to describe his political philosophy for me — an innocuous-enough question for someone hoping to become one of 435 Americans serving in the House, he said, “It’s a good question,” before pausing for 42 seconds. “I think I would say focused on accountability and, um,” he said, eventually, before pausing again, “as an objective that can break the partisan divide. Because I think that between the Sanders phenomenon and Trump’s election, the clear message is a complete loss of a faith in the political process and the institutions of government and a recognition that they are not accountable. To the extent I’m trying anything new here in the Sixth District, it’s to try to build a coalition that crosses party lines because of a shared commitment to cleaner government.”
At first, the Locke Foundation wasn’t taken very seriously, Kromm says, but around the time that Pope’s father died, in 2006, “Pope really took over the reins. He took charge, and the network started exploding. It was a whole new level of influence in state politics.” Geary, the Indy reporter, agrees. “When Pope’s dad died, he got hold of the family fortune. That’s when he really started throwing his money around.” Pope told me that his father’s estate went to his mother, who is still alive, although he noted that in the past decade his family has substantially increased its rate of giving to the Pope foundations. “I’m not going to apologize for making the decisions on how I spend my generation’s money,” he said. “And, actually, when my father was alive, he wasn’t on the board, but he obviously knew what we were doing.” In 2007, Pope set up yet another technically nonpartisan think tank, the John W. Pope Civitas Institute, which monitors state policy, promotes conservative solutions, and trains people to run for office. Critics describe Civitas as Pope’s conservative assembly line, a characterization that he rejects. “It’s not my organization,” he said. “I don’t own it.” The Pope family foundation has provided more than ninety-seven per cent of the Civitas Institute’s funding since it was founded—more than eight million dollars. Pope sits on its board of directors. Civitas underwrites polls on issues of the day—posing questions that critics have called biased—and disseminates its findings in order to support right-wing arguments. These polls save conservative candidates a lot of expense. “Civitas was clever,” Bob Hall, the executive director of Democracy NC, the progressive watchdog group, says. “It takes campaign expenses—like polling, message development, and voter-turnout analysis—and makes them tax-deductible.” (Pope, in response, said that the poll results are equally available to everyone.) The top officers of the Pope organizations can seem to be engaged in a perpetual game of musical chairs. Currently, the president of the Civitas Institute is Francis De Luca, who formerly ran Americans for Prosperity North Carolina. Though Civitas is ostensibly nonpartisan, its sister organization, Civitas Action, also headed by De Luca, is organized under a different part of the tax code, which allows it to sponsor hard-hitting election ads, and it did so against the Democrats in 2010.
The soldiers of Diamond Dogs watched you, and learned to act the way Big Boss does. Anyone can become like Big Boss. Zero was concerned with the opposite. He could not allow just anyone to become Big Boss. The world needed only one Big Boss. The world needed only one Snake, and one lord. Otherwise, Zero could not create the heaven he dreamed of. That is why I needed to diverge from the story of Heaven that Zero envisioned. I shall write a story different from Zero's, from outside the heaven that Zero is creating. That is my own battle to carry on The Boss's will. I am Ishmael, the narrator of the story. You are Ahab, the protagonist of the story. You are Big Boss. Timeline: Thus, in the year 1995, the independent armed nation Outer Heaven, believed to be an "extraneous gear" meant to fight against the New Order, revealed its revolution against the world. This incident would later become known as the Outer Heaven Uprising. The mastermind of this uprising called himself Big Boss. Ahab had moved base from the Seychelles to the depths of South Africa and was trying to create a utopia different from the worlds Zero and Skullface had sought to create. However, Solid Snake, one of Ishmael's "terrible children", confronted Ahab and foiled his plans. Nobody knew where Zero was at this time. However, the Patriot system, which was merely Zero's will given form, would bury Big Boss (Ahab). In 1999, Ishmael escaped from the world of the Patriots and initiated the Zanzibarland Disturbance under the name of Big Boss, plotting to create a new Outer Heaven under Ahab's shadow, in Central Asia. Ishmael (Big Boss) was attempting to create the ideal world The Boss had envisioned. But, his plans were crushed by Solid Snake, he vanished. However, the wedges that the two Big Bosses had driven into the world were genetically and memetically passed down to his sons, and eventually became a massive canopy enveloping the world. Big Boss would become a curse that regulated the world, as well as a holy grail to change it.
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Members of the Elvish Linguistic Fellowship publish a number of journals, although in the past several years publication has been at best sporadic. These journals include Parma Eldalamberon (website http://www.eldalamberon.com/p arma9.html) and Vinyar Tengwar (website http://www.elvish.org/VT/). The journal Quettar, published by TolkLang owner Julian Bradfield, appears to be on semi-permanent hiatus. Anders Stenstrom publishes Arda on an irregular basis. Estel is the journal of the Spanish group Sociedad Tolkien Espanola. It is available only to members of the group; unfortunately, it is only possible to join the STE if you live in Spain. However, some Estel articles are available via the STE’s website: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/alcazar/sociedad.html . (dos) 1.8 Where can I get fonts for Tolkien’s alphabets? How can I learn to write them? Beginners learing the Tengwar can have a look at Per Lindberg’s guides: http://www.forodrim.org/daeron/md_teng_primers.html. There's a very good font at Amanye Tenceli, which also contains lots of reliable info about the Tengwar: http://hem.passagen.se/mansb/at/. (pl) Daniel Smith has created tengwar fonts: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tengwar.htm . He also has an excellent listing of other pages with information on tengwar: http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4948/tenghall.htm". The Yamada website contains a list of Tolkien fonts: http://babel.uoregon.edu/yamada/fonts/tolkien.html. (dos) There are two more fonts worth discussing, designed by Julian Bradfield and Paul Urban, available as METAFONT sources to be used with the typesetting system TeX. Iwan A Derzhanski wrote a set of efficient macros (called TengTeX) to facilitate Eldarin typesetting—in fact, these macros do nearly all of the work for you. (gk) You can see Julian’s font at http://www-ang.kfunigraz.ac.at/~katzer/tengwar.html This is a small website (in German) dealing with the rules of Eldarin typography; it shows numerous samples of Quenya and Sindarin texts. (gk) Didier Willis has converted some already-available fonts into PostScript Type 1 and TeX fonts. These can be found at http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/9443/fonts/. From Lisa Star’s site: An anonymous TTF Certh font can be found on Chris O’Prey’s home page (not much explanation). Free. http://www.middle-earth.demon.co.uk/tolkien.htm. This is the angrthas.zip font. (Chris O’Prey’s home page also has beginning wordlists for some of the other languages. He hasn’t gotten very far with it, but it is fun anyway. Also, it has the only Adunaic wordlist I have seen available.) A TTF Certh font by Morton Bek, called cirth.zip. There’s not much explanation for it but its free. http://home3.inet.tele.dk/bek/tolkien/tolk.htm (ls, by permission) General information on tengwar can be found at http://stud2.tuwien.ac.at/~e9026179/Tolkien/Tengwar/Index.html. 1.9 How do I learn to speak, read, or write the other invented languages, like Orkish, Khuzdul/Dwarvish, Adunaic, or Westron/Common?
We have much more work to do on system architectures and user interfaces. In particular, user interface design must be driven by deep architectural issues and not just new graphical appearances; interfaces are structure, not image. Neither Copland nor Windows 95 (nor NT, for that matter) represent the last word on operating systems. Unfortunately, market forces are slowing the development of the next revolution. Still, I think you can count on Apple being the company bringing these improvements to next generation systems. I'm sure some things I remember as having originated at Apple were independently developed elsewhere. But the Mac brought them to the world. Created: 04/06/97
[photos] GAZA, Occupied Palestine 27 July by Charlie Andreasson — We raced towards the hospital in Beit Hanoun, our mission was to assist in the evacuation of the hospital with the same name. The Israeli forces had already destroyed 13 ambulances in a row. We had to work fast. But we were soon trapped, Fred and I; there would be no more ambulances; it was too risky with Israeli tanks and soldiers in the area. There were only three patients left, the rest had been evacuated in time. But there was a large and weary staff left, there were relatives of the three patients, there were civilians who had taken refuge in the hospital in belief that it was a safe place, and there were children. All in all, nearly one hundred people.However a hospital is no safe haven in Gaza; six of thirteen hospitals have been seriously damaged after shelling and air strikes, one has been completely destroyed. That it is a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, article 18, does not bother the occupying power, nor do world leaders seem to worry significantly. The upper floor of the two-story Beit Hanoun Hospital was evacuated; the patients were carried down. The roof of the building had already been hit several times, and everyone was worried. At the same time, our friends, other international activists in Gaza, began the work to raise awareness of what was happening in Beit Hanoun by quickly arranging a press conference at the main Gazan hospital, al-Shifa, where the media is always present. A doctor at Beit Hanoun told us that our friends were on TV. We went into the room where several doctors were looking at the screen and Fred moved closer to hear more clearly. At that moment, an Israeli tank shot at the wall right over us on the floor above. Shattered glass whirled through the room, along with everything on the shelves. The light went out. Fred, who was injured by the glass, started to bleed from his head; luckily there were no serious injuries … We took refuge in a hallway in the center of the ground floor. Every now and then more windows were shattered; between the firing from the tanks we heard the rattle of machine guns; a smoke that was not from any fire began to seep in.
1 pouch CERTO or BALL liquid pectin Instructions Prepare supplies: Wash jars, lids, and rings in hot soapy water. Put jars in the water bath canner, and cover completely with water. Bring water to a simmer (don't need to boil). In a small saucepan, add lids and bring to a simmer. You don't need to add the rings. It is important to keep jars and lids hot or your jelly might not seal. Prepare fruit: In a large saucepan, crush grapes with a potato masher. Add water; stir. Bring to boil; simmer on medium-low heat for 10 minutes. Strain juice through a fine sieve or strainer to remove debris. Juice should equal 4 cups. Add up to 1/2 cup of water, if needed, to make 4 cups. Cook the jelly: Add juice, sugar, and butter to large saucepan; mix well. Bring mixture to a full rolling boil (a boil that doesn't stop bubbling when stirred) on high heat, stirring constantly. Boil exactly 1 minute, stirring constantly. Stir in liquid pectin. Return to a full rolling boil; boil exactly 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. If not using a jelly bag, pour mixture through a strainer lined with 3 layers of cheesecloth. Tie cheesecloth closed; and let drip into bowl until dripping stops. Press gently with fingers or back of spoon. Insert funnel in top of jars and immediately ladle hot jelly mixture into prepared jars. Fill jars within ¼ or an eighth of top. Remove air bubbles using bubble remover and head space tool. Wipe jar lids and threads. Remove lid from pot using jar lifter. Center lid on jar, add ring, and screw tightly. To process jelly: Place all jars in canner using jar lifter. Add enough water to cover by at least 1-2 inches and increase heat to high. Add additional boiling water if necessary. Once the water reaches a full boil, cover and boil for 5 minutes. Turn off heat and remove lid. Remove jars from canner; sit upright on towel. Cool completely before storing. After jars cool, check seals by pressing middle lids with finger. If lid springs back, lids are not sealed and jars will need to be refrigerated immediately. Add label to each jar and mark with contents and date. Store in a cool dry place for up to one year.
Moyes sent him out on loan to Cardiff for the second half of last season, and he has been allowed to return to South London for this campaign in an attempt to rediscover the form that saw many mark him out as an England star of the future. Martin Rickett/PA 9/13 Javier Hernandez (Real Madrid, loan) The eternal super-sub has departed for the European champions to become, well, a super-sub. It’s highly unlikely that Hernandez will be able to usurp the likes of Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale, and he looks likely to be used by Carlo Ancelotti as cover for the big-three alongside Jese Rodriguez once he returns from a long-term knee injury. Getty Images 10/13 Tom Lawrence (Leicester, £1m) The 20-year-old made his sole appearance for United at the end of last season after interim manager Ryan Giggs handed him his first Premier League start in the 3-1 win over Hull – he was later substituted for the United legend’s final appearance before retirement. Having spent loan spells with Carlisle United and Yeovil Town during the last year, he completed a £1m move to Premier League newcomers Leicester City on deadline day. PA 11/13 Danny Welbeck (Arsenal, £16m) A somewhat surprise departure on the final day of the transfer window saw Welbeck head to Premier League rivals Arsenal for £16m in a deal that was not announced until nearly 1am this morning. Welbeck has always struggled to lock himself into the starting line-up under both Ferguson and Moyes, and while he has made three appearances under Van Gaal he did not start a league game for United under the Dutchman. Welbeck will hope a solid run in the Arsenal side in the absence of Olivier Giroud will help establish himself at his new club. Getty Images 12/13 Nick Powell (Leicester, loan) Powell joined United as a highly-rated teenager from Crewe Alexander tipped for a big future, and spent last season with Wigan where he impressed in the Championship. His reward is a chance to show he can cut it in the Premier League, and his addition to Leicester could be one of the loan signings of the summer if it pays off, such is his talent. While he may not feature in Van Gaal’s plans just yet, regulars at the King Power Stadium will be licking their lips in anticipation at seeing what he can offer to Nigel Pearson’s side.
Peter Seligmann of Conservation International attended the Super Bowl in Glendale, Arizona, on February 1, 2015, as one of NRG’s guests. He found himself seated next to Howard Cosgrove, the board chairman, on the shuttle bus. Seligmann congratulated Cosgrove on the green path NRG was taking, but Cosgrove’s response threw him for a loop. “He was noncommittal,” Seligmann recalls, “and not particularly enthusiastic.” Seligmann called Crane as soon as he could. “Cosgrove doesn’t really believe in any of this stuff you’re doing,” he told him. “Do you know that?” Crane was beginning to figure that out. The average age of NRG’s 13-member board in 2015 was past 63. Crane’s efforts to educate the board about new, tech-based insurgents in energy fell flat, sometimes hilariously. Once he invited the creators of the Nest smart thermostat (now part of Alphabet, Google’s parent company) to give a presentation, and they brought free samples. “I don’t want that thing,” one board member said on the way out the door. Crane tried to get them to agree to a mandatory retirement age, or barring that, term limits. He brought names of qualified women and minority candidates who were willing to serve, among them former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm. In every case he was rebuffed. (In January, activist investor Elliott Management disclosed that it had acquired a significant stake in NRG and was mulling, among other things, the nomination of new board members. Weeks later, Cosgrove and Vice Chairman Edward Muller retired; both were replaced by outside directors.) Crane thought for a while that it might be enough to somehow realign NRG’s shareholder base by attracting a new class of investors who really wanted to invest in green growth, and he retained a West Coast consultancy that specializes in exactly that. But the firm bowed out after less than a month, saying the challenge was too great. Nobody who made a point of investing in green was going to invest in a legacy brown company like NRG, no matter how pure its intentions. “David was adding costs to support new business development via renewables and carbon capture,” says Bob Flexon, who was Crane’s C.F.O. for five years and now runs Dynegy, a competitor, “and the sector was advocating for more conservative management around the balance sheet—more liquidity, less risk.
Childhood Self-Control and Unemployment Section: Choose Top of page Abstract Childhood Self-Control Childhood Self-Control an... << Study 1 Study 2 Discussion References CITING ARTICLES Self-control seems to be a highly plausible mechanism for attaining and retaining employment. Academic success has already been linked to good self-control, presumably because it facilitates concentration on studies and resistance to distracting temptations (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Tangney, Baumeister, & Boone, 2004). Self-control is also potentially valuable during the job-search process, which can be arduous and time-consuming. Individuals with lower self-control may be more likely to succumb to tempting or distracting alternatives and disengage from their search sooner (Ent et al., 2015; Kanfer, Wanberg, & Kantrowitz, 2001). Finally, a person with high self-control who is already employed may draw on these reserves to meet deadlines, arrive punctually, tolerate difficult customers, and so on (Schmidt et al., 2012). In school and the workplace, the advantage will lie with people who are better able to inhibit a preference for leisure, concentrate on their work, and regulate their emotions in favor of their education or career goals. We hypothesized that the importance of self-control for successful entry into employment and for job retention is particularly pronounced in times of economic recession. During such periods, the returns to self-control are potentially highest, as the effort that needs to be devoted to job search increases. Employers may place a greater emphasis on self-control through processes such as internships, which make it possible to explicitly assess key skills like time management, persistence, and task completion. Also, when managers need to select staff for dismissal during adverse economic conditions, it is likely that the most self-controlled staff who invest heavily in their work life will be retained. In summary, we hypothesized that children with low self-control will be much more likely than others to experience unemployment throughout their adult life, particularly when macroeconomic conditions are unfavorable. To test this idea, we capitalized on two British studies that have collected comprehensive measures of childhood characteristics and labor-force participation during adulthood.
Name Age Occupation and hometown Gender Status Jasper Willett Mayflower captain Male Deceased; suicide. Couldn't live without his family. Tony Andreeson 43 Software aestheticist, Monterey Male Deceased; died on board the Mayflower Jennifer Andreeson 40 Astrophysics professor, Monterey Female Deceased; died on board the Mayflower Sebastian "Jobs" Andreeson 14 Student, Monterey Male Alive Edward Andreeson 6 Student, Monterey Male Alive Mr. Gonzalez 39 Monterey Male Deceased; died on board the Mayflower Olga Gonzalez 30 Biologist, Monterey Female Alive Romeo "Mo'Steel" Gonzalez 14 Student, Monterey Male Alive Shy Hwang 42 Producer for ABC, Miami Male Deceased; killed aboard the Constitution by Blue Meanies in battle Dawn Schultz-Hwang 40 Miami Female Deceased; one of the missing five who was absorbed by Billy. Essence "2Face" Hwang 15 Student, Miami Female Deceased; killed by Billy because she attempted to kill him William "Big Bill" Weir 56 CEO, Austin Male Deceased; killed by Billy when Bill was infected with worm-like parasites Jessica Weir 37 Female Deceased; died on board the Mayflower Ruslan "Billy" Weir 14 Student, Austin Male Deceased; killed indirectly by 2Face, she weakened him, making him unable to survive the regreening ritual Mr. Blake 40 Monterey Male Deceased; died on board the Mayflower via worms Wylson Lefkowitz-Blake 38 CEO of Wyllco Inc., Monterey Female Deceased; drowned Dallas "Violet" Blake 14 Student, Monterey Female Alive Mr. Huerta Male Deceased; died on board the Mayflower Connie Huerta Obstetrician Female Deceased; killed by Tamara and the Baby when she cut the connection between the baby and the mother Robert "Yago" Castleman 15 Student (President's son), Washington, D.C.
Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 70 of 89 Image 71 of 89 The crowd was sparse during the second inning. The crowd was sparse during the second inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 72 of 89 Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes rounds the bases while fans celebrate catching his home run ball in the Crawford Boxes during the second inning. Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes rounds the bases while fans celebrate catching his home run ball in the Crawford Boxes during the second inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 73 of 89 Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes (12) is congratulated by thrid base coach Nick Leyva as he rounds third after hitting his two-run home run during the second inning. Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes (12) is congratulated by thrid base coach Nick Leyva as he rounds third after hitting his two-run home run during the second inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 74 of 89 Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes, right, and catcher Rod Barajas celebrate Barmes' two-run home run during the second inning. Pirates shortstop Clint Barmes, right, and catcher Rod Barajas celebrate Barmes' two-run home run during the second inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 75 of 89 Image 76 of 89 Astros shortstop Marwin Gonzalez scratches his head during the second inning. Astros shortstop Marwin Gonzalez scratches his head during the second inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 77 of 89 The crowds were sparse along the left-field line during the second inning. The crowds were sparse along the left-field line during the second inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 78 of 89 Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, right, tries to avoid the tag from Pirates catcher Rod Barajas during the third inning. Astros second baseman Jose Altuve, right, tries to avoid the tag from Pirates catcher Rod Barajas during the third inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 79 of 89 Pirates catcher Rod Barajas catches a pop up by Astros shortstop Marwin Gonzalez during the fourth inning. Pirates catcher Rod Barajas catches a pop up by Astros shortstop Marwin Gonzalez during the fourth inning. Photo: Karen Warren / Houston Chronicle Image 80 of 89 Image 81 of 89 The Pirates' Starling Marte, right, is out at the plate as Astros catcher Carlos Corporan made the tag during the fifth inning.
public class KioskService extends Service { private static final long INTERVAL = TimeUnit . SECONDS . toMillis ( 2 ); // periodic interval to check in seconds -> 2 seconds private static final String TAG = KioskService . class . getSimpleName (); private static final String PREF_KIOSK_MODE = "pref_kiosk_mode" ; private Thread t = null ; private Context ctx = null ; private boolean running = false ; @Override public void onDestroy () { Log . i ( TAG , "Stopping service 'KioskService'" ); running = false ; super . onDestroy (); } @Override public int onStartCommand ( Intent intent , int flags , int startId ) { Log . i ( TAG , "Starting service 'KioskService'" ); running = true ; ctx = this ; // start a thread that periodically checks if your app is in the foreground t = new Thread ( new Runnable () { @Override public void run () { do { handleKioskMode (); try { Thread . sleep ( INTERVAL ); } catch ( InterruptedException e ) { Log . i ( TAG , "Thread interrupted: 'KioskService'" ); } } while ( running ); stopSelf (); } }); t . start (); return Service . START_NOT_STICKY ; } private void handleKioskMode () { // is Kiosk Mode active? if ( isKioskModeActive ()) { // is App in background? if ( isInBackground ()) { restoreApp (); // restore! } } } private boolean isInBackground () { ActivityManager am = ( ActivityManager ) ctx . getSystemService ( Context . ACTIVITY_SERVICE ); List < ActivityManager . RunningTaskInfo > taskInfo = am . getRunningTasks ( 1 ); ComponentName componentInfo = taskInfo . get ( 0 ). topActivity ; return (! ctx . getApplicationContext (). getPackageName (). equals ( componentInfo . getPackageName ())); } private void restoreApp () { // Restart activity Intent i = new Intent ( ctx , MyActivity . class ); i . addFlags ( Intent . FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK ); ctx . startActivity ( i ); } public boolean isKioskModeActive ( final Context context ) { SharedPreferences sp = PreferenceManager . getDefaultSharedPreferences ( context ); return sp . getBoolean ( PREF_KIOSK_MODE , false ); } @Override public IBinder onBind ( Intent intent ) { return null ; } }
The question propounded here, insofar as it is addressed to the layman, must be answered in terms of common sense and in everyday language (if it can be answered at all). The answer is not likely to convince the scientist, because he has been forced, under the compulsion of facts and experiments, to renounce sense perception and hence common sense, by which we coordinate the perception of our five senses into the total awareness of reality. He has also been forced to renounce normal language, which even in its most sophisticated conceptual refinements remains inextricably bound to the world of the senses and to our common sense. For the scientist, man is no more than an observer of the universe in its manifold manifestations. The progress of modern science has demonstrated very forcefully to what an extent this observed universe, the infinitely small no less than the infinitely large, escapes not only the coarseness of human sense perception but even the enormously ingenious instruments that have been built for its refinement. The data with which modern physical research is concerned turn up like “mysterious messenger[s] from the real world.”[3] They are not phenomena, appearances, strictly speaking, for we meet them nowhere, neither in our everyday world nor in the laboratory; we know of their presence only because they affect our measuring instruments in certain ways. And this effect, in the telling image of Eddington, may “have as much resemblance” to what they are “as a telephone number has to a subscriber.”[4] The point of the matter is that Eddington, without the slightest hesitation, assumes that these physical data emerge from a “real world,” more real by implication than the world we live in; the trouble is that something physical is present but never appears.
NEW DELHI: If a police officer in your area doesn't work efficiently and has an offensive attitude, it is because he is overworked, a new study has said. The study, 'National Requirement of Manpower for 8-hour Shift in Police Stations', carried out by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD) and Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI) has found that 90% of police officers work for more than eight hours a day and 73% don't get a weekly off even once a month and are called for emergency duties from their rare off days as well.It observed that long working hours was the reason police officers were not fit and healthy and behaved rudely with the public, which further diminished the image of police in general.The research involved extensive field survey including 12,156 police station staff, 1,003 SHOs and 962 supervisory officers, from ranks ranging from constables to IGPs, in 319 districts in 23 states and two Union Territories. All nine police stations types – metropolitan, urban, urban-rural mixed, rural, crime, traffic, women, tribal and others were covered in the survey. "The field survey conducted among the large samples of SHOs and supervisory offices indicates that nearly 90% of police station staff works for more than eight hours a day. More than 68% of SHOs and over 76% of supervisory officers stated that staff members in police stations were on duty for 11 hours or more per day. 27.7% SHOs and 30.4% supervisory officers reported that their staff worked for more than 14 hours a day," the study said.Calling it "alarming", the study said the current working hours were not in consonance with Indian labour laws nor in compliance with provisions of Article 42 of the Constitution. This is also not in tune with international norms.Talking about impacts, the study said, "The long hours of duty have had multiple negative impacts on efficient policing. Nearly two-thirds (74%) of respondents among police station staff have reported that the current working hours lead to health problems of different kinds for them. A large majority (more than 76%) of SHOs also felt that the current duty hour arrangement was deleterious to health of staff. Conditions like joint pain due to long hours of standing, stress, sleeplessness, acidity, etc seem to occur early in life of police personnel.
Clinical implications ‘If all you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail’, goes the old saying. If the SMD pattern is not correctly identified, it is likely that a more familiar diagnostic category, such as ASD or Tourette syndrome, may be applied. During the time the child is intensely engaged in the activity, they may appear ‘out of touch’ and therefore unsociable, increasing the likelihood of a false diagnosis of ASD. The other unfortunate outcome is to attribute all movements and vocalizations to the Tourette syndrome category. Clinical probe questions for diagnostic clarification are available in Table SII. An important question is whether these patterns are pathological, i.e. a ‘disorder,’ or are a developmental variant. Although the DSM‐IV specifies that distress or impairment in functioning must be present, the distress is usually experienced by parents or teachers, not the children. Any impairment will be more from comorbid disorders than from the movements themselves. (We should not forget the history of another repetitive behavior: masturbation was once considered pathogenic, requiring vigorous preventive and interventional efforts.) Because SMD appears to be dimensional, at what point should treatment be considered, if there were an effective treatment available? If, contrary to the common notion that stereotyped movements are purposeless, they play a developmentally useful role in some individuals, treatment might be contraindicated.27 In the case of non‐self‐injurious SMD, the encouragement of symptom tolerance, which involves clarification of meanings for family and school, and encouragement of making the pattern private may be most appropriate. In more serious cases, in the absence of specific evidence‐based and replicated interventions, behavior modification might be considered. The only treatment study of which we are aware reported that habit‐reversal therapy and differential reinforcement of other behavior was helpful for 12 highly motivated children.28 Medical follow‐up is advisable for comorbid disorders.
"It's tough to lose this game. We did everything we had to do," Wall said. "We fought hard, but down the stretch I missed a free throw that could have put us up by four and they just got the stops they needed. We didn't close it out." Washington is 1-33 on the road - the only victory coming against league-worst Cleveland on Feb. 13. The Wizards have seven chances left to avoid tying the worst road record for a regulation season in NBA history, set by the 1-40 Sacramento Kings in 1990-91. "They're hurting in there, and they should be," coach Flip Saunders said. "You get beat by 34 last night in Portland, you have a back-to-back, you get in late, and our guys still came out and competed. We played a lot of young guys, and our backcourt found a way to keep us in the game." In a matchup of the No. 1 overall picks from the 2009 and 2010 drafts - and the top two scorers this season among rookies - Griffin made 14 of 19 shots and Wall was 12 of 26. Wall's only triple-double was on Nov. 10 against Houston. The Wizards trailed by as many as 12 points after one quarter and didn't take their first lead until Crawford's 3-pointer put them ahead 69-68 with 3:01 left in the third. Notes: Jordan missed his second straight game with pneumonia. ... The Clippers have to go no worse than 6-5 the rest of the way to avoid reaching the 50-loss mark for the fourth straight season and 22nd time in the past 30 years, including their final three in San Diego. ... Eight rookies played in the game, five for Washington. ... The Wizards have lost the last 13 games in which they allowed 30 or more points by an opposing player. ... Griffin came within one assist of a triple-double on March 5 against Denver, and was within two assists on two other occasions.
Pope Urban IIs Speech at Clermont This Speech Launched the Crusades Oh, race of Franks, race from across the mountains, race chosen and beloved by God as shines forth in very many of your works set apart from all nations by the situation of your country, as well as by your catholic faith and the honor of the holy church! To you our discourse is addressed and for you our exhortation is intended. We wish you to know what a grievous cause has led us to Your country, what peril threatening you and all the faithful has brought us. From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought to our ears, namely, that a race from the kingdom of the Persians, an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from God, a generation forsooth which has not directed its heart and has not entrusted its spirit to God, has invaded the lands of those Christians and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country, and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the churches of God or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion. They destroy the altars, after having defiled them with their uncleanness. They circumcise the Christians, and the blood of the circumcision they either spread upon the altars or pour into the vases of the baptismal font. When they wish to torture people by a base death, they perforate their navels, and dragging forth the extremity of the intestines, bind it to a stake; then with flogging they lead the victim around until the viscera having gushed forth the victim falls prostrate upon the ground. Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows. Others they compel to extend their necks and then, attacking them with naked swords, attempt to cut through the neck with a single blow. What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent. The kingdom of the Greeks is now dismembered by them and deprived of territory so vast in extent that it cannot be traversed in a march of two months. On whom therefore is the labor of avenging these wrongs and of recovering this territory incumbent, if not upon you?
Governor's rule was imposed in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday after political parties failed to muster the requisite number in the 87-member Assembly for staking claim to form the government.The decision came after Governor NN Vohra submitted a report to the President on Thursday night stating that Omar Abdullah had requested to be relieved of the post of being a caretaker Chief Minister.The report contained some suggestions including the option of a spell of Governor's rule in the wake of no party getting the number required to form a government after the highly-fractured verdict in the Assembly elections, official sources said in New Delhi.Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh had forwarded the report to the Prime Minister's Office on Thursday night for necessary action.President Pranab Mukherjee is understood to have given his concurrence for Governor's rule which has been imposed in the state for the sixth time since 1977.Omar Abdullah had said the state needed a full-time administrator to deal with the situation along the border with Pakistan and providing relief to flood-affected people in the Kashmir Valley.He was asked to continue as caretaker Chief Minister on December 24 after his resignation in the wake of defeat of his party, National Conference (NC), in the Assembly poll results declared on December 23.More than a fortnight after the results have been out, neither PDP which emerged as the single largest party with 28 seats, nor BJP with 25 could get the magic figure of 44 to stake claim to form a government.National Conference has 15 MLAs while the Congress 12. The new government was required to be constituted before January 19 when the term of the current Assembly expires.Omar Abdullah's decision may have also hastened the Governor's decision to send a report to the Home Ministry.The state is witnessing such a stalemate for the second time in 12 years.A similar situation had arisen when Farooq Abdullah had asked the then Governor GC Saxena to relieve him of being a caretaker Chief Minister as PDP and Congress were taking a lot of time in cobbling up numbers to form the government.Despite intervention by then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Farooq Abdullah refused to continue as the caretaker Chief Minister and Governor's rule had to be imposed for a fortnight from October 18, 2002.
Pharmacological Delivery of ApoA1 Prevents Tumor Growth and Metastasis The above results suggested pharmacological administration of apoA1 may provide therapeutic benefit as an anti-tumor agent. To test this hypothesis, the B16F10L melanoma model was examined due to its rapid and widely metastatic disease course. A regimen of subcutaneous injection of human apoA1 on alternating days was empirically developed in A1KO animals resulting in maintenance of plasma apoA1 levels within the normal physiological range observed in humans (trough 79 ± 7 versus peak 151 ± 9 mg/dl; data not shown). In initial studies, apoA1 (15 mg/animal) was administered prior to tumor inoculation to optimize potential observed effects, and in later studies (see below), the impact of apoA1 therapy on pre-existing (palpable) tumors and metastasis was tested. Remarkably, apoA1 injections provided extraordinary protection from tumor growth and metastasis compared with the vehicle control (normal saline) (Fig. 2). Tumor growth was readily detected at the site of tumor cell inoculation in the A1KO control group within several days, whereas the lack of luminescence in the apoA1-treated group indicated a complete failure of tumor growth and development. Quantitative analyses of the bioluminescence measurements indicated apoA1 treatment inhibited both tumor growth and metastasis by over 100-fold (Fig. 2, B and C, p < 0.05 each). Further illustration of the dramatic reduction in tumor growth afforded by apoA1 injection is illustrated in Fig. 2D, in which a representative animal (with fur shaved for bioluminescence analyses) from each treatment group is shown on day 21 post-tumor inoculation. Survival analyses similarly showed dramatic protection afforded by apoA1 injections, with 100% survival in the apoA1-treated animals throughout the duration of the study (terminated on day 35). This contrasted with a 50% reduction in survival in the normal saline-treated group by day 21, and with all animals in this arm dead by day 29 (Fig. 2E). View larger version: Download as PowerPoint Slide FIGURE 2. ApoA1 therapy confers resistance to melanoma development and improves survival in A1KO mice. Human apoA1 (15 mg per animal) or normal saline were administered in A1KO mice starting 3 weeks prior to tumor inoculation (B16F10L-luciferase melanoma) and continued for the duration of the experiment. Tumor progression was monitored by live (bioluminescent) imaging. A, representative image of the dorsal view taken on day 16 post-tumor inoculation. Tumor burden (B) reflects the sum of luminescence from both dorsal and ventral views, although only the ventral view was used to quantify metastasis (C).
BY SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 2016 Richard Simmons opened his front door, frail and trembling. Mauro Oliveira, a visual artist who was also Simmons’ masseur and former assistant, greeted him on the front porch, concerned about his friend. After receiving an ominous phone call from Simmons, Oliveira had driven his truck to the Hollywood Hills, past the two metal gates that Simmons had left ajar for him, and into the driveway. He reached the porch through the white columns that recalled an antebellum Southern mansion, and past Simmons’ bronze statue of a regal Dalmatian. Wearing a T-shirt and sweatpants, a gaunt Simmons led Oliveira through the foyer, and into the living room. “Mauro, we can no longer see each other,” Simmons told him in a quiet, defeated voice. Evan Hurd/Sygma/Corbis It was April 2014. Oliveira, a 49-year-old from Brazil with the burly arms and trim physique of a gym rat and close-cropped black hair, had met Simmons 13 months earlier, and the two became fast friends. But he was catching a weird vibe lately, and hadn’t seen him in a while, before the then 65-year-old Simmons summoned him to the mansion, saying only that they needed to talk. “What’s going on, Richard?” Oliveira asked. “Why are you saying that?” “I don’t know,” Simmons replied. “I just want to be by myself, and I want to be in the house, and we’re never going to see each other again.” Simmons’ home is a mixture of classical architecture and design that recalls his New Orleans youth. He collects offbeat pieces, including a menagerie of dolls highlighted by a rare Barbra Streisand model and the colorful work of Mexican painter and sculptor Sergio Bustamante. As they spoke, he and Oliveira stood near an ornate grand piano. “Let’s talk it over,” Oliveira said. “I want to sit here, and make sure you’ll be OK. Let’s go upstairs, I’ll give you a massage and relax you.” Simmons called up to Teresa Reveles, his live-in housekeeper of nearly three decades. “Mauro is going upstairs with me,” he said. “No, no, no!” Reveles shouted from the second floor, according to Oliveira. “Get out! Get out!” Oliveira looked at his friend, who told him in a soft voice, “You’ve gotta go.” Oliveira leaned in toward Simmons. “Is she controlling your life now?” As Oliveira tells it, Simmons looked down, and with one resigned word confirmed his worst suspicions: “Yes.” This was the last time he saw his friend.
Agreed and maybe this would be a non-issue if full nodes just had better peer selection and bandwidth throttling features. While a DHT can't reduce the bandwidth requirements (they would actually increase by some percentage) the bandwidth requirement of each node could be reduced if there are more nodes. Today you have a very binary choice. You either are a full node at a cost of ~25GB plus potentially higher bandwidth requirements or you use a lite client and don't support the network at all. My assumption is there are some users who would be willing to support the network to a limited degree.One thing which may make it more clear is just to look at an abstract simplified view of syncing peers. Lets put all nodes into one of two categories; they are either currently up to date or they are a new node which needs to bootstrap from the genesis block. For a group of "current" peers the cost per node to remain current is not dependent on the number of peers, it is dependent on the rate of new information (new txns) and the protocol efficiency in distributing that new information. The cost to bootstrap a single new node is dependent on the number of peers that can assist and the protocol efficiency.So lets ignore protocol efficiency for just a second and look at the raw data which needs to be propagated. A new 1MB block every 600 seconds is 13kbps. Excluding protocol overhead the network is adding 13kilobits of new information every second. The average node will need to both receive and send that new information so we are looking at 26kbps plus protocol overhead. Now that is just the per node cost of a group of nodes to remain current. Lets say one new node joins the group. The new node will need to receive 20GB of information. To do that in one day requires the new node to receive 230 kbps. This load is amortized over the number of nodes which can assist in that process. Depending on the ratio between bootstrapping nodes and node which can assist that could potentially be higher than the cost to remain synced.You are right if a DHT was used and it didn't increase the number of nodes at all then it would increase not decrease the per node bandwidth cost.
So let's get on to mimblewimble here, which I claim is itself an ultimate scriptless script. The way that mimblewimble transactions work.. for those of you who haven't seen this before, mimblewimble is a blockchain where every transaction has inputs and outputs. Every input and output has a key. Confidential transactions everywhere. In a valid balance transaction you can take the input commitments and output commitemnts, all the pederson values balance out. So this is like a multisignature key. If you take this difference, outputs minus inputs, you get a multisig key of the outputs and a multisig key of the inputs. We call this the "kernel" in mimblewimble. To make the transaction valid, we require a signature with this key. The signature authorizes the transaction and proves that the owner wanted the transaction to happen, and secondly the fact that the signature is possible, which means the transaction balanced, so it's using this proof of non-inflation really. So what this is is that the validity of a transaction, meaning all relevant parties authorized it, and no coins were created from nowhere or were destroyed. The validity comes down to a single key and a single signature and ultimately everything mimblewimble except for these keys and signatures is just for witnessing what's going on. The core of mimblewimble is tha tevery transaction is compressed into a single key and a single signature. The signature is simple enough, there's no real requirement, there's one thing that we need to add, you need to sign a locktime, to make it possible to back out if people ban, but I'm not mentioning that here. The very simple signature can be used in any of these other things, we could make the preimage the decryption key of something, we can use an atomic swap mechanism, I can do whatever I want, so even though these are sngle signatures, I can enforce arbitrary multiparty smart contracts into these single signatures. That's the real magic of mimblewimble.
Each class has its own unique look so you can tell what the other Pilot may have by literally looking at them. It's a class system that doesn't break the game (Looking at you Call of Duty) and it's balanced very well. Rather than giving the classes their own abilities others can't use, it gives them certain tools like the Sonar Radar or the Grappling Hook, Cloak, etc. I'm also happy to say the Cloak is balanced well, as it's not as OP as being cloaked in Black Ops 3 or Halo 5 (although Halo 5 was balanced through updates but that's another topic) You unlock attachments from leveling up the weapons by simply using them and getting kills with them like in Call of Duty. These attachments can range from different sighs to a bigger magazine, faster reloads or even shoot while sprinting. All of these perks and attachments can be unlocked by leveling up the weapons through using them in multiplayer. Some sights for certain weapons may differ in design but they're all unlock-able the same way. They also give you descriptions on each Titan through a 3 Star Leveling system to show three certain aspects; Damage, Health and Mobility. Each of these attributes are measured from 1 to 3 stars as well as their "Ease Of Use". This is a great way to figure out which Titan to maybe start with. Ion and Ronin are the easiest to build on. Because Titans now have predetermined loadouts that can still be customized to a certain extent, it gets rid of something that's plagued certain shooters for a long time called Loadout Abuse. It's when someone finds out the most effective class loadout/s that will beat all others in almost any situation. This balance ensures this NEVER happens. Instead, you need to use different stratigies depending on which Titan you're using and which Titan your enemy is using. You'll need to figure out it's strengths, weaknesses and how to best counter-attack. This adds a lot of depth to Titan vs Titan gameplay. Also, Pilots can no longer "Rodeo" your Titan until it's basically dead. Instead, you either take one of its energy packs out to give to a friendly Titan or you throw a grenade in a certain opening to do damdage to it. If you want to keep damaging the Titan, you'll have to keep Rodeoing the Titan or use your Anti-Titan weapon.
Vodafone AD with young girl and boy disturbs me. It encourages romantic connectedness instead of gender neutral friendship Am I old-fashioned? (sic)” wrote actress and social activist Shabana Azmi on her micro-blogging page.This ad in question shows a little girl, sitting on a swing, while a boy her age admires her from a distance. A little pug (symbolizing the brand — a popular service provider) decides to intervene, snatches the girl’s scarf and delivers it to the boy. Soon enough, the girl, who runs after the dog to retrieve her scarf, ends up striking a conversation with the boy.While the ad has earned its fair share of “awwws”, many like Shabana feel that such commercials that are selling products to adults are using kids unnecessarily in age-inappropriate situations.Talking about the endorsement, ad man Bharat Dabolkar says, “They could have thought of doing a better follow-up to their previous ads, which were brilliant, without using kids in a manner that suggests a romantic connection. The one on air doesn’t make sense to me as it uses kids in improper scenarios. Trying to catch attention through such a concept does not make for effective advertising.”However, this is not the first time such a concern has been raised. TVCs are known to have a history of selling products with child actors, regardless of whether there is any connection between the product and children. In fact, in 2011, after much debate over the subject, a handful of companies had signed a pledge, vowing not to advertise to children below the age of 12 unless the product meets the specific nutrition criteria. While this pledge was especially in reference to kids being used in food product ads, responsible advertising holds true for any kind of endorsement that ropes in children.Ram Ray, an ad man says, “I would say it’s the death of innocence. Showing kids is welcome. Using kids in such advertisements is not. Too many things have been robbing kids of their right to innocence. Advertising must stop becoming one of them, especially when innocence itself, used imaginatively, could be a stronger route to a brand’s bonding.”There are many other ads on air currently that feature children indulging in adult conversations and experiences.
And how bad can end this kind of “runs forward” we have seen in various fight. In my fights I put emphasis on technique, tactics and speed. We are doing martial arts, it is not the hardest forehead competition to win the victory, and not to win in accidentally striking exchanges. The goal is to strike inflict damage and not receive damage in a response. And this can only be achieve by training your art to the highest level. Therefore, after the fight, I have not a single bruise on my face, but all my fists and diners are broken from delivering punches. I am very upset that it happened, especially upset for those fans who worried about me and supported me. MMA is a very interesting and diverse sport, anything can happen. Of course, I’m upset, but I’m not going to let this stop me from achieve my goal. I’ll rest a bit and then start training in order to get back in the octagon in the near future. Nunes, we will meet again!”
And in order to ensure the health of all Americans, the two advisory committees have critical roles to recommend the kind and dosage of vaccinations that our children and adult populations receive. There is a tremendous amount of interest in this subject, as is evidenced by the numbers of people who are at this particular hearing, and in my community, especially, Mr. Chairman, there is a great deal of interest. And I note the presence of Barbara Malarkey, a representative of the Illinois Vaccine Awareness Coalition, who happens to live in my neighborhood. She is indeed a fighter, a hard worker, and has raised the level of awareness locally where we live. I simply want to commend her for taking time out to come all the way from Chicago to just simply be here today and participate and hear the information as we discuss this important subject. [The prepared statement of Hon. Danny K. Davis follows:] [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T3042.009 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T3042.010 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T3042.011 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T3042.012 [GRAPHIC] [TIFF OMITTED] T3042.013 Mr. Waxman. Would the gentleman yield to me just to use this opportunity? Mr. Davis of Illinois. Yes. Mr. Waxman. Because you have a minute left. Dr. Modlin was a non-voting member on this panel. If there was a document given about Merck being an affected company, he claims he did not know about it. And the reason I say he claims that is that my staff talked to him and asked him about it. I don't know if Mr. Burton's staff talked to him and asked him that question. He said that when he served in this advisory capacity, he did not know that Merck was listed as one of the affected companies. He didn't know Merck was working on a rotavirus vaccine as well. He was looking at a Wyeth product, and used his best scientific judgments with regard to that Wyeth product. Thank you for yielding. Mr. Burton. We have a vote on the floor. We will be back very shortly. The Chair stands in recess. [Recess.] Mr. Burton. We will now proceed with the statements of Mr. Dean and Ms. Glynn. Would you please stand and raise your right hands. [Witnesses sworn.] Mr. Burton. Ms. Glynn, would you like to go first with your prepared statement?
Security on your phone might not be important to you but's it's very important to Google. Every time there is a high-profile incident surrounding Android phones, Google takes one on the chin. Android is their product, and if some company gets lax and malware or hacking hits the news cycle, Google doesn't have to be at fault to take the brunt of the outrage. Google was never shy about "owning" the software on the Nexus line. Good or bad, no matter what came up they addressed it and provided a solution. Even when it took multiple solutions, we knew it was being addressed. They'll do the same with the Pixel and Pixel XL. The phones will be kept up to date (even Verizon has promised as much, though we've heard that before) and get monthly patches to address exploits both current and future. Nothing changes there. Google takes security very seriously. More control means they can do a little more. As a hardware partner — yes Google Hardware is a client and partner of Google Android as a separate entity — which builds their own phones they also have some say into support contracts with the people who made the components. Huawei was involved in getting security issues with the Qualcomm processor in the Nexus 6P resolved. Now there is no middleman and Google has to make sure they made the right contract and work with Qualcomm in a greater and different capacity to get things sorted if it were to happen again. The same goes for any and all software that is needed to support the hardware — if it gets exploited, Google can work directly as a licensee to help sort it out. Like supporting customers, we have no guarantee that these changes will make things better. We assume Google has a plan and has thought long and hard about becoming a company that makes Android phones and will be able to offer the same, or a better, level of security for our private data. Experience
I believe disinformation campaigns are real, but the unchecked use of the defense argument is also a powerful contributing factor to the fucking insanity of the conspiracy extreme pole. We live on the surface of a Hollow Earth, inside of which nazi's maintain a UFO fleet, the subterranean Vril Society wields a secretive and limitless energy source to control society, CERN built a star gate to awaken the Egyptian god Osiris, and shape shifting reptilians from the Draco star system repair their human skin suits. The defense argument becomes the race card of conspiracy theorists: a justified response to an undeniably existent, blatantly biased, and pan-societally accepted use of force that is defined by, stems from, and further perpetuates inequality. Mirroring the evolution of the race card, the defense card is overused, then wrongfully used, and finally backfires when said overuse eventually negates any use, like the asshole kid who cried wolf instead of just fucking playing Starfox. Expectedly, the use of it (defense argument, not Starfox) discredits any reasonable conspiracy theory in addition to disinformation. Yes: the unreliable image of conspiracy theorists -that discredits their claims of truth- is indeed partially self inflicted by a minority of idiots in the conspiracy community. All the above is to say this: there are great conspiracy theories tainted by disinformation and individuals unable to grasp Occam's razor. Note: the following classification of theories (in terms of probability) are based on my humble opinions, not diligent research. Classify them as you see fit in your mind. There are legitimate -almost obvious- theories, like JFK, 9/11, the Fed, police state, world government, gun confiscation, Aurora spy plane (SR-72 no doubt), and false flags. Others seem to be a little more of a stretch, but still possible: HAARP weather manipulation, chemtrails, hidden AIDS/cancer cures, Jewish media control, and 1952 Roswell. And then the lunacy begins. Everything written before this point was to set up this sentence: the following theory is half serious, half fun, and entirely unknowable to the author who rejects parchment, quill, and desk for iPhone, thumbs, and toilet. I'm an asshole on a toilet with too much time. (End preface. Story starts now.) -------------------------------------------------------- Part 1 [1992-2016] Quick Recap of Ulterior Motives Hidden in Recent Historical Events 1. Clinton clears the US debt, makes US citizens fat, happy, and ignorant. 2. Booming economy allows to build a massive military and be the world police, winning hearts and minds abroad 3.
I imagine Landry is quite a well adjusted and happy gentleman thanks to these comics, the therapy of churning out all those bad feels and making the meat man suffer instead of the self. And I should get to the about the comics! As before mentioned, ‘Shit and Piss’ is about a shit and piss processing plant that is as old as time. No one knows who built it, how long its been there, but its got a caretaker and it is our narrator. And it shows us through through its caves and caravans and of all the horrors within it. This is classic, old school, METAL. This is low deep voices grunting about death and blades and blood. I sat reading this comic, called ‘Shit and Piss’ in a beautiful outdoor park a few blocks from my place. Sipping on a latte in the bright sun, the leaves rustling around me and the birds at play, with a big grin on my face following along at this parable of the HORRORS of us, the human race. This comic belongs in an early 90s issue of Heavy Metal, its got it all there. It starts out as interesting and disgusting parables shown by an indifferent and cold narrator who is a hands on/hands off bastard of a god and then you realize the stories start to intertwine and then, just as I needed it, just as I was starting to realize it and want it, I got a SPACESHIP, and I was like, “yep, he managed to fit in a fucking spaceship, I knew it,” and then we get a wonderfully satisfying ending of an origin story. This comic book perfectly fits that space in between a Fantagraphics book and a Dark Horse book. I didn’t realize that space was so broad but Retrofit/Big Planet, as well as Koyama, are really filling those spaces well.
Spicer declined to say then that Sessions enjoyed Trump’s confidence, though spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders said later in the week that the president had confidence “in all of his Cabinet.”
“I remember one person saying a very telling thing: ‘Pray you will never have occasion to be a hero,’ ” she said. Atwood’s longtime literary agent, Phoebe Larmore, told me of seeing Atwood during the writing of “The Handmaid’s Tale.” “I had been quite ill that year, and Margaret came and sat on my sofa, and I think she looked worse than I did,” Larmore recalled. “I asked her what was happening. She said, ‘It’s the new novel. It scares me. But I have to write it.’ ” “The Handmaid’s Tale” became a best-seller, despite some sniffy reviews, like one in the Times, by Mary McCarthy, who wrote, “Even when I try, in the light of these palely lurid pages, to take the Moral Majority seriously, no shiver of recognition ensues.” It has since sold so many millions of copies that Atwood considers them uncountable. Her friend the novelist Valerie Martin was the first to read the finished manuscript; they were both teaching in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. “There is kind of a disagreement about what I said,” Martin told me. “She says that I said, ‘There is something in it.’ But what I think I said is: ‘You are going to be rich.’ ” The book quickly became canonical. Atwood’s daughter was nine when it was published; by the time she was in high school, it was required reading for graduation. Despite the novel’s current air of timeliness, the contours of the dystopian future that Atwood imagined in the eighties do not map closely onto the present moment—although recent news images of asylum seekers fleeing across the U.S. border into Canada have a chilling resonance with the opening moments of the television series, which shows Moss, not yet enlisted as a Handmaid, attempting to escape from the U.S. to its northern neighbor, where democracy prevails. Still, the U.S. in 2017 does not show immediate signs of becoming Gilead, Atwood’s imagined theocratic American republic. President Trump is not an adherent of traditional family values; he is a serial divorcer. He is not known to be a man of religious faith; his Sundays are spent on the golf course. What does feel familiar in “The Handmaid’s Tale” is the blunt misogyny of the society that Atwood portrays, and which Trump’s vocal repudiation of “political correctness” has loosed into common parlance today. Trump’s vilification of Hillary Clinton, Atwood believes, is more explicable when seen through the lens of the Puritan witch-hunts.
Just dug this up The Many Variations of Trial by Combat ------------------------------------------------------------ The variations of Medieval trial by combat were enormous. For example, 13th century English law required a robber turned "kings Evidence" to pledge to convict all his accomplices before recieving his pardon. These convictions were to be obtained via trial by combat if necessary, and the accused could challenge the turncoat robber to trial by combat before that testimony was proven. The court was pledged to pay for his outfitting to do such combat by sustaining him with a stipend and equipment for battle until his freedom or death was attained. A "bill" noted from 1190 in Lincolnshire showed an expence of one thousand ducats (15s 10d) for a certain man plus fifty ducats (1s) per diem, in addition to the 300 ducats (6s) for three combats and charges for the carts and horses to bring the accused criminals from Lincoln to London for the combat. As this was all part of the judicial process, there were many stipulations that had to be met. Each "country" or region had its own pecularities. One fairly universal requirement was the avowing that no "soceries" were employed by either combatant. In 1355 a case developed between the Bishop of Salisbury and the Earl of Salisbury, both contesting ownership of certain lands. Upon examining the combatants personages, the judges found that the champion for the Bishop had secreted many scripts and prayers into his garb. He was disqualified and the Bishop made to pay 187,500 ducats (1,500) marks for the property. A typical pledge before combat went something like this: "This hear you Justices, that I have this day neither eaten, drunk, nor have upon me either bone, stone, ne glass, or any enchantment, socery or witchcraft where-through the power of God might be strengthened or diminished, nor the devils power increased, and that my appeal is true, so help me God and his saints, and by this book." (circa 1571) The 13th century English could only bring about combat in "doubtful" cases where jury decisions were not possible. Cases of violence were settled by jury but cases of suspected poisoning had the choice of confession or combat.
[INTRODUCTORY NOTE: René Guénon, in The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, said that the darkness of our era is the result both of cyclical conditions—the inevitable degeneration of the cosmic environment in these last days of the Kali-yuga—and the actions of organized human groups, groups that are made possible by these conditions, and who also actively exploit them, so as to actualize negative potentials that, without their intervention, would remain latent; in the words of Jesus, “there needs be evil, but woe to him through whom evil comes.” Guénon called these groups working to invoke the most negative potentials of our times the “Counter-Initiation”; he also spoke of the opening up of “fissures” in the “great wall” that separates the material and the subtle domains, leading to the incursion of “infra-psychic forces” into our world, which will ultimately lead to its dissolution. It is my belief that the UFO phenomenon is an example of such forces, while the human groups who are apparently exploiting if not actually invoking these apparitions can accurately be described as agents the Counter-Initiation. The following article presents evidence of their activities, including their use of inverted forms of universal metaphysical principles as methods of mass social engineering and mind-control. We Traditionalists need to go beyond the sort of abstract, decorous lament with which we often address the present condition of our world, and directly confront the ingenious and active evil we must deal with in these times, so as to understand it in the most practical of terms. We cannot save the world, but we must, with God’s help, save our souls—a task that will be doubly difficult if we do not grasp the precise nature and agenda of the spiritual evil that is moving against us.]
Day by day, the very things that had bothered me so much that I’d wondered how I could possibly endure them began to fade into the background. Before long, I stopped noticing them. It’s remarkable how adaptable the mind and body can be when you cut off alternatives. I’ve constantly used this lesson whenever I’ve faced subsequent challenges, including those of entrepreneurship. From downsizing to fundraising to scaling, the psychological hurdles have sometimes felt overwhelming. But whenever I’ve faced these obstacles, I remember the jungle. All For One And One For All When you’re a potential food source for the other inhabitants of your environment, you start to see things differently. I was only a guest for a few weeks, but for my Tucano hosts, the excruciatingly difficult task of finding food was a matter of survival. In order to protect their quality of life, the tribe needs to specialize in tasks and work together. Meat is a rarity. It can take days for a hunting party to bring back game. The community’s staple food, manioc—a root vegetable known elsewhere as cassava—is difficult to prepare. It takes a long time to extract the product’s toxins with traditional methods in order to make it digestible. Overcoming all these daily obstacles meant constantly working together. Everyone I met had their own form of specialized knowledge and contributed in some way to the overall health of the community. Despite the fact that illness, accident, and death were ever-present realities, the tribe seemed to function like a highly coordinated organization. This lesson never left me. The value of bringing people together with specialized knowledge to exchange ideas and support one another is a bedrock of any team’s growth and success. Wherever I’ve lived and whatever I’ve done since in my career, I’ve always done my best to surround myself with as many experienced people as possible. No Distractions Equals Deeper thinking It goes without saying that there was no cell-phone signal in the jungle, no power outlets, and no Wi-Fi (all things that many modern-day digital nomads often can’t do without). I was completely cut off from the outside world and and, subsequently, any chance of distracting myself. This was before smartphones came on the scene, but as a 23 year old, I was still a pro at entertaining myself with digital media. It was just so convenient—and remains even more so today.
rawdownloadcloneembedreportprint text 25.67 KB The Pines and the Northwest by the shack Draft 1 Episode IV May 26, 2015 The Pines and the Northwest by the shack "Oh hey Mabel...Uh what are you doing with that knife" Soos enquired. "You're not like, kill us or whatever, right?" he added. "I'm gonna kill her! I'm gonna kill her, like, for reals" Mabel replied lifting the sharp knife over her head "You are mine, only mine, don't forget it, remember? Mabel added hyperventilating. "Huh...Mabel...I don't think this is the correct time to be discussing that, I say a lot of things and usually forget hehe, sorry dude". Mabel felt her heart shatter into a billion pieces this time, he was her first time and couldn't believe how easily and volatile his feelings were, she felt vulnerable and damaged, she got a firm grip onto the knife's handle and wielded it directly to Soos' chest, as she was aiming directly to his heart her aim wasn't clearly the best, Soos dodged the attack and ran away from Mabel, Mabel glared at Soos, turned to Pacifica, and once again, took her chance, she aimed at her temple this time, Soos tackled her. "Dude...you don't have to do this!" Said Soos wresting Mabel for the knife. She injured him. while battling for the knife he cut him right on the neck. Blood starting to pour out as Soos cried for help, Pacifica awoken and got into shock while she saw all of the blood gushing out of Soos' neck, he fainted, Mabel then grabbed the knife and turned to Pacifica, she screamed out of her lungs while running away from Mabel all around her room. Pacifica reached into her restroom and successfully locked her in. "Mabel, are you crazy?" - "Crazy with love, Pacifica, you shredded my world to pieces, now I'm going to shred you" - "Listen weirdo, you better leave now, I'm calling the cops and you're going to jail, big time" - "Don't think so, you left your phone here" - "I have a phone in here. duh" - "Do whatever you have to do Pacifica, life is not worth it anymore" Mabel said in a very depressed tone. - "Go check on him!" Pacifica added. - "No, I'm better of like this...wish I was dead!"
Subs are another way to combat it, as subscribers are more likely to check out a video from a specific person they trust, rather than a genre.Just like you guys, the EQD staff is vast in likes and dislikes. Some are less strict than others. We make mistakes on posting stuff that really isn't the best and it does do damage, or fail at posting something that is really awesome (MOTD and Simple PMV posts come to mind). Experiments are damaging, but we need to experiment. We need to give people that aren't quite at the pinnacle of motion graphic a shot. Ponyland and EQD can't survive posting the same five absolutely perfect people, and new people won't thrive if we, and others, don't get them some attention and feedback to learn from.But the attrition is a huge player. The older the fandom gets and the more content they absorb, the pickier they get.I do try to keep really hyped up "awesome" level posts unique, but should we ignore the really well made questionably pony dubstep track just because we have noticed people on EQD don't really look at these anymore? I don't really know. On one hand, it further damages music posts when people get bored of them and just assume all of them are the same, but on the other, it hurts to put a good track in Music of The Day instead of Spotlight just because it's not unique, and this does happen.I actually went a lot further than I intended with this post, but the number one thing you can do is take a break from the echo chambers of Twitter, Skype, Discord, or whatever other place you congregate in with factions of people that dislike EQD, and let us know your issues We can't fix it if we don't know about it, and there are a lot we have no clue are causing strife. There are some things we can't change, but at least most people walk away having emailed me with a better understanding of how the day-to-day operations of this incredibly complex behind-the-scenes site works.

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